Key terms required for today’s lesson: write them down, decide what you think they mean using the images Insight Latent content Manifest content – a dream.

Key terms required for today’s lesson: write them down, decide what you think they mean using the

images

• Insight

• Latent content

• Manifest content – a dream as it appears to a dreamer

Aha! That is why!

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

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)

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

There are 2 key aspects to psychodynamic therapies

1. Free Association

2. Dream Analysis

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!

Study partners – 12A

Dream Analysis Free Association

Clare Macaulay

Christy Chloe

Danielle Sarah

Katie Jake

Kacey Caragh

Study partners – 12D

Dream Analysis Free Association

Mary-Jane Chloe

Abbey Becka

Helena Charis

Megan Aidan

Ehlana Mark

Jen Munashe

Faith Sophie ?

Louise Niamh

Alice Danielle

Study partners – 12C

Dream Analysis Free Association

Abi Amber

Alex Chloe

Beth J Chris

Kate Beth K

Jemma Katie

Lewis Luke

Jess Beth R

Rebecca Callum

India Emma

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

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

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

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

Free Association

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

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)

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.