psychoanalysis

    Cards (3)

    • talking therapy used with adults.
      weekly sessions over several years
      uses free association, dreams, nightmares and fantasies
      interprets and brings conflicts to patients consciousness
      ni evidence to suggest the unconscious exists
      lower success rates
    • strength
      trust and bond
      long term, change conflicts
      social, gain support
      gain understanding
      gives reason and strategies
    • weakness
      traumatic, don’t want to talk
      tine consuming, give up
      nor practical (time off work)
      might not remember dreams
      sensitive, worse before better
      only adults
      nit always effective
      language barriers