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| Treatment in which a trained professional-a therapis-uses psychological techniques to help a persn overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, or bring about personal growth. |
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| Therapy that relies on drugs and other medical procedures to imporve psychological functioning. |
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| Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively. |
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| Freudian psycholotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior. |
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| The transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patient's parents or other authority figures. |
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