Cards (6)

  • 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)