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Theories Informing Policy
Individualistic Theories
Psychoanalysis
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What is it?
therapy intended to treat
mental disorders
by investigating interactions between
conscious
and
unconscious
elements in the mind
uses
dream interpretation
and
free association
What theory informs this policy?
Freud
:
Psychoanalysis
Application
being chased
in a dream: avoiding acknowledging anxiety within your life
falling
in a dream: possible loss of control
free association: responding to words without
thinking
hoping to reveal something about the person and
trigger
some
emotion
Arguments For
used extensively in
UK
prisons
supported by
Freud's Psychoanalysis
theory
Arguments Against
is
voluntary
can't use across all
prisons
used as a
preventative
measure for
first time
offenders
Does it Work?
very
time consuming
and is unlikely to provide quick answers
could make it
worse
research suggests it works as well as other psychiatric treatments for criminality (E.g.
Cognitive Behavioural therapy
)