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Insight Latent content Manifest content – a dream as it appears to a dreamer

Key terms required for today’s lesson: write them down, decide what you think they mean using the images. ?. Aha! That is why!. Insight Latent content Manifest content – a dream as it appears to a dreamer. Learning Objective: to explore and evaluate psychodynamic therapies for phobias.

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Insight Latent content Manifest content – a dream as it appears to a dreamer

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  1. Key terms required for today’s lesson: write them down, decide what you think they mean using the images ? Aha! That is why! • Insight • Latent content • Manifest content – a dream as it appears to a dreamer

  2. Learning Objective: to explore and evaluate psychodynamic therapies for phobias • ALL will be able to describe the key features of psychodynamic therapies for phobias • MOST will be able to analyse manifest and latent content of dreams • SOME will be able to evaluate the worth of psychodynamic therapies for phobias

  3. January 2013: Progress Measure • Lily has a phobia of cars. This has become so extreme that she is almost a prisoner in her own home, refusing to go out. Lily is unable to watch cars on television, talk about cars or even look at pictures of them. • Explain how a psychodynamic therapist might treat Lily’s phobia of cars. (3 marks)

  4. Psychodynamic treatments for anxiety disorders • What do psychodynamic theorists believe is the cause of phobias? • Therefore the aim of the treatments which then propose is to provide an insight into what the unconscious is anxious about • They do this by using techniques which lift the ego’s defence mechanisms

  5. There are 2 key aspects to psychodynamic therapies • Free Association • Dream Analysis

  6. Today you are working in study partners… • One of you will learn about free association • One of you will learn about dream analysis • Then you will teach one another your part of the therapy!

  7. Study partners – 12A

  8. Study partners – 12D

  9. Study partners – 12C

  10. Free Association • The patient is encouraged to relax and say anything and everything that comes to mind, no matter how odd • As the patient relaxes the ego finds it difficult to manage the unconcious id impulses and these begin to slip through • These unconscious impulses are brought into conscious awareness and the therapist interprets and explains the cause of the anxiety • A02 (-) there are much quicker and simpler ways of dealing with anxiety e.g. systematic desensitisation • A02 (-) psychodynamic therapies are expensive and time consuming, they can take many years to complete

  11. Dream Analysis • Freud believed dreams provided us with a path into the unconscious mind • Repressed ideas in the unconscious which cause some form of anxiety are more likely to appear in dreams than when someone is awake • Latent content = what the dream really represents • Manifest content = the dream as it appears to a dreamer • E.g. a person who is anxious about sex might dream of horse riding, manifest content = horse riding, latent content = anxiety about sex arising from a childhood trauma • A02 (-) the analysis of the unconscious can prove traumatic for patients, because when the defence mechanisms are lifted, negative emotions such as guilt and fear are released

  12. MANIFEST CONTENT – What do you think is the LATENT CONTENT?

  13. Freud ‘the vast majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols’ Knife, umbrella, snake = Penis Box, oven, ship = Uterus Room, table with food = Women Staircase, ladder = Sexual intercourse Baldness, tooth removal = castration Left (direction) = crime, sexual deviation Fire = bedwetting Robber = father Falling = anxiety

  14. Free Association • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUfv-tAfXn4

  15. January 2013: Progress Measure • Lily has a phobia of cars. This has become so extreme that she is almost a prisoner in her own home, refusing to go out. Lily is unable to watch cars on television, talk about cars or even look at pictures of them. • Explain how a psychodynamic therapist might treat Lily’s phobia of cars. (3 marks)

  16. Explain how a psychodynamic therapist might treat Lily’s phobia of cars. (3 marks) • AO2 Up to 3 marks for explaining how a psychodynamic therapist would attempt to treat • Lily’s phobia of cars. Credit should be awarded for detail of psychoanalytic techniques • such as free association, dream analysis, etc. • 1 mark for naming/describing a technique or techniques. 1 mark for explaining how this technique/techniques would be applied to Lily’s phobia. 1 mark for reference to the fact that the psychodynamic therapist would try to uncover the true source of the phobia/that Lily’s phobia of cars is symbolic of a deeper unconscious fear.

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