5.5a Vocab

The process, begun in the late twentieth century, of moving people with psychological disorders out of institutional facilities.

1. Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology

1. An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Sigmund Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences — and the analyst’s interpretations of them — released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s noting of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in an effort to promote insight.

In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).

Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.

Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.