Gestalt therapy

Joshua Kohan AP Psychology Therapy/Treatment Outline Therapy Psychotherapy- an emotionally charges, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties Eclectic Approach- an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client?s problems, uses or integrates techniques from various forms of therapy (also know as psychotherapy integration ? Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis- Freud believed the patient?s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences- and the therapist?s interpretations of them- released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight Resistance- blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material