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| Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud believed that patient's free associations, resistance, dreams and transferences-- and the therapists interpretations of them-- released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight. |
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| Is psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love and hatred of a parent). |
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| In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. |
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| Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination od unwanted behaviors. |
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| Systematic Desensitization- |
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| A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. |
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| A type of counter-conditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such a nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol). |
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| An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats |
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| Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on assumptions that thought intervene between events and our emotional reactions. |
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