Compared to psychodynamic therapy, behavior therapy:?
I'm pretty sure the answer is A, can be tested in the lab. Psychodynamic therapy is a Freudian based therapy and is based mostly on case studies. Behavioral therapy has a lot of research behind it. You could do a lab test by having one group receive a behavioral therapy such as systematic desensitization to cure phobias and have another group not receive the treatment and see which group improves more. I don't think it's B, cannot explain the origin of abnormal behavior, because in the behavioral view, the behavior is the origin of the abnormal behavior. They believe that either classical or operant conditioning may be the reason the person has this abnormal behavior. I don't think it's C, does not have therapeutic techniques, because behavioral therapy does, such as systematic desensitization, modeling and flooding, among others. Finally, I don't think it's D because as I said before, there is a lot of research behind behavioral therapies. Systematic desensitization and flooding have both shown to be very good therapies for phobias. Hope this helps!
How does a CBT paradigm see Freudian unconsciousness?
Well as noted in another answer: CBT does NOT see Freudian “unconsciousness”. And, metaphorically speaking, CBT IS blind and deaf to the “unconsciousness”. Of course, Freudian unconsciousness is built on the theory that one entire area of the brain is devoted to the unconscious and its the unconscious that drives much of our behaviors.I offer that there is significant research that supports the cognitive theory of human development and the impact of our “conscious” thoughts (via self-talk) on our emotions and behaviors.In contrast, I offer that there is little (dare I say NONE) research that supports that an “unconsciousness” (in the Freudian sense, not the neurological sense) even EXISTS, never mind governs most of our behaviors.But, hey, maybe I just dreamt all of this….Hope that helps :)
What are the criticisms or weaknesses of Freudian psychoanalysis?
Once upon a time, psychoanalysis was all there was. Since then hundreds of new therapies have emerged, some better than others for particular issues. Some modalities are more targeted to particular neurosis and work faster than good old fashioned psychoanalysis. For instance, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is particularly good at helping people change bad habits. Psychoanalysis has fallen out of fashion for a number of reasons, some of them being that many of Freud's ideas such as penis envy or hysteria were seen as a good start but pretty much a product of their times and not as respectable as they once were. There is something called The Dodo Bird Theory. When a race was proposed to determine the winner in Alice In Wonderland, the dodo bird was to pick the winner. When the race was done, he decided that everyone was a winner. So as far as talk therapy goes, everyone is a winner. Studies of just about every modality of talk therapy has been shown to help the client. Psychoanalysis was also found to be helpful but it tends to be more expensive and it also takes longer than most other therapies.
Psychodynamic therapy question?
Psychodynamic therapy's main goal is to look at the events in your childhood that may have triggered your current problems and reconstruct those events so that you can deal with them. Psychodynamic therapy has been proven to be highly effective since it works from the past forward. You can expect it to be a longer process than that of Cognitive behavioral or behavioral because it does not just target the undesired behavior, but the triggers behind it. There is a vast focus on the past and the unconscious. You might try googling brief psychodynamic therapy as that is the more modern method of Freud's original "psychoanalysis". Talk to your new therapist about what you can expect-they are required to give you all that informationg in the first meeting.