Question

1. Modern psychoanalysis is defined as _______.

Answer 1

1. Modern psychoanalysis shows how unconscious factors affect a person's interpersonal relationships as well as the different behavioral patterns. Its goal is to release restrained emotions and experiences and to make a person aware of his/her unconscious thoughts to gain insights.

2. Psychoanalysis can be a lengthy process. The average treatment time in the US is over 5 years. Patients who are recommended to this treatment often withdraw from it quickly because they want to experience immediate relief from stress or emotional suffering.

3.  In Psychoanalysis, therapists may see their clients up to four or five times a week. As stated in number 2, the whole process is time consuming and requires devotion from the clients. The therapists need to set up an environment wherein their clients would be able to feel free and speak up so therapists need to constantly check up with their clients to understand their comfort zones better. 

4. Part of the therapist's role in psychoanalysis is to establish an environment where the client feels safe. It is also the therapists role to ensure and facilitate the growth of clients in terms of awareness and psychological development. Therapists should be able to identify the factors which could interfere with their relationship with the client. 

5.  Therapists use a series of questions and statements to try and lead clients to self awareness. They use Freudian slips or slips of tongues to uncover their clients' hidden selves. According to Freud, slips of tongues are windows that therapists can peer through to understand the clients' unconscious selves.

6. Psychoanalysis began with Sigmund Freud. He believed that people could be cured by letting them become aware of their unconscious selves, gaining insight, and releasing their repressed emotions through a series of talks with a therapist. The strategies employed in these therapies include dream interpretation, free association, and transference. 

7. The idea of "lying on the couch" has come to be ridiculed in modern society. The novel written by Irvin D. Yalom showed the problems faced by modern day therapists. These problems include sexual impropriety, bribery, fraud, etc. These things are commonly avoided by therapists as it deviates from the moral standards that therapists should uphold to maintain integrity and effective treatment. 

8. In therapy, psychoanalysts try to trace unconscious factors that are the source of personal difficulty back to their historical source. A prime example of the typical historical source that a psychoanalyst and his or her client uncovers during therapy is the failure to overcome trust vs mistrust.

9. Psychoanalysts believe that people are often unaware of the numerous factors that affect their emotions and behavior. Therapists believe that a buried trauma from a certain event or repressed emotions can directly affect their actions. 

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10. Using the knowledge you’ve gained in previous lessons, which of the following is a technique that a psychoanalyst is most likely employ in treatment? (1 point) 
a. Medication to stabilize dopamine imbalances 
b. Dream analysis 
c. Twin studies
d. Cognitive restructuring

10. Psychoanalysts would use dream analysis as one of their methods in uncovering their clients' unconscious selves. According to Freud, our conscious self becomes less vigilant when we're asleep. When this happens, the repressed emotions surface, although most of what we remember would be altered in our dreams.