Insight Resistance Interpretation Transference
Definition
Insight - Awareness into one’s own mental processes. Resistance - An unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness. Interpretation - The analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings resistances & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight. Transference - The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.
Related terms
Psychoanalysis: A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders.
Free Association: In psychoanalysis, a method by which the patient reveals their unconscious thoughts by saying whatever comes to mind.
Repression: In psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism where unpleasant or undesirable memories are pushed into the unconscious.
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