Talk therapy or Psychotherapy plays an important role in the overall management of the patients having Psychological problems.Sigmund Freud elaborated the theeory of unconscious mind by designing the model of mind as : id,ego and suer-ego.Sigmund freud started exploring the symptoms of the clients and based on that ,tried to explain the individual's behaviour.Freud was of the belief that people have sexual and aggressive impuses in them and therefore,they needed to be protected about not knowing their own desires of the unconscious mind.Freud further stated that they use this by using mechanisms known as "Defence mechanisms."
Few of the defence mechanisms are :
Denail,
Sublimation,
Projection,
Reaction formation,
Displacement,
Reaction formation,
Regression.
Some of the defence coping skills were labelled as used in immature,neurotic,psychotic and mature defences.
Psychoanalytic Treatment : Main aim of the psychoanalytic treatment was to bring "repressed ' unconscious material to the conscious awareness by various stages in progression like "Free association".
Psychodymics also encompasses to expore the patient's emotional experiences,their relationships with others,use of the defence mechanisms,interpretations of the dreams,day dreams and fantasies.Therapists also use Transference phenomenon as part of the psychotherapy.
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