Psychodynamic Therapy Research Paper

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Which Therapy? The therapeutic style that I prefer is psychodynamic therapy. It intrigues me that someone can unveil their thoughts and feelings without knowing it or even meaning to. As a person with clinically diagnosed depression, I find it interesting and intriguing that by resurfacing hidden memories and experiences a person with a psychological disorder can make improvements on how they make decisions, and how they handle various relationships with other human beings. I prefer this over humanistic approach because, personally, an attempt to boost my self-acceptance would result in me getting frustrated. I do not believe that that style of therapy would benefit me, along with a majority of people with psychological disorders that I know. It also poses the …show more content…

Many times, friends and family have tried to expose me to a harmless cat in a relaxed situation, and it only managed to freak me out and trust them less in the relaxed situation. I found that counterproductive. In regards to aversive conditioning, I believe that it would be too easy to just be frustrated with the therapist for putting you through the conditions. For example, there have been medicines that make clients sick if they drink alcohol, but they stop taking the medicine so that they may drink; there have been nail bitters who put a special, rather gross tasting, nail polish on to prevent nail biting, that just stopped using the nail polish to allow themselves to bite their nails. Operant conditioning sounds to me just what parents do- rewarding their kids with good when they do well, and punishing the bad. I do not believe that this is something anyone needs to pay a therapist to do. With cognitive-behavioral therapy, along with psychoanalytical therapy, the therapy techniques require a large amount of time both for the client and the therapist. Therefore, it is impractical for most students and working-class

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