4. Promotes mentalizing and insight; Promotes integration and more flexible functioning
END OF TREATMENT
Ideally when:
● Patient and therapist agree that goals have been satisfactorily achieved
● A date for the end of the treatment has been set (2-3 months)
● Patient uses the final months of treatment to explore and work through fears and disappointments and positive
experiences associated with the end of treatment => evaluating treatment
Video: Therapeutic Neutrality
● Context: patient wants to drop out of college and quitting of therapy
● Patient expresses pressure of staying in school
● Remind patient of treatment goals, explore feelings of pressure, exploring possibilities
- LECTURE 9: PSYCHODYNAMIC GROUP THERAPY WEEK 5
PSYCHODYNAMIC GROUP THERAPY
Type of Therapy
● Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic theory
● Group dynamics study
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY - FOUNDER SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939)
● Subconscious
● Personality: Id, ego, superego
● Intrapsychic conflicts
● Defense mechanisms
● Transference/countertransference
● Genetic orientation
● Corrective emotional experience
● Interpretation
Subconscious
● Conscious => thoughts and perceptions
● Preconscious => memory & stored knowledge
● Unconscious => instincts fears & selfish motives (what we target in therapy)
Freud’s Theory of Personality - Id, Ego, Super-ego
● Id => primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive
drives and hidden memories.
● Super-ego => operates as a moral conscience.
END OF TREATMENT
Ideally when:
● Patient and therapist agree that goals have been satisfactorily achieved
● A date for the end of the treatment has been set (2-3 months)
● Patient uses the final months of treatment to explore and work through fears and disappointments and positive
experiences associated with the end of treatment => evaluating treatment
Video: Therapeutic Neutrality
● Context: patient wants to drop out of college and quitting of therapy
● Patient expresses pressure of staying in school
● Remind patient of treatment goals, explore feelings of pressure, exploring possibilities
- LECTURE 9: PSYCHODYNAMIC GROUP THERAPY WEEK 5
PSYCHODYNAMIC GROUP THERAPY
Type of Therapy
● Psychoanalytic/ psychodynamic theory
● Group dynamics study
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY - FOUNDER SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939)
● Subconscious
● Personality: Id, ego, superego
● Intrapsychic conflicts
● Defense mechanisms
● Transference/countertransference
● Genetic orientation
● Corrective emotional experience
● Interpretation
Subconscious
● Conscious => thoughts and perceptions
● Preconscious => memory & stored knowledge
● Unconscious => instincts fears & selfish motives (what we target in therapy)
Freud’s Theory of Personality - Id, Ego, Super-ego
● Id => primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive
drives and hidden memories.
● Super-ego => operates as a moral conscience.
