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Running Head: THERAPY COUNSELING

Therapy Counseling

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Name of School

Psychoanalytic is one of the theories that was demonstrated in the Stan clip. Psychoanalytic is the theory of personality by focusing on conscious and unconscious. Conscious mind embraces what you are currently aware of, including memories, thoughts and perception. Unconscious mind embraces what you are not aware of, including repressed needs or feelings and instinct. During this therapy session, the therapist reminded Stan about his concerns with his father. The therapist use the free association technique. In free association, clients are encouraged to say whatever come to mind, regardless of how painful, silly, trivial, illogical, or irrelevant it may seem (Corey, pg. 73). Stan define his father as angry, strong, inpatient, and blind. Stan reported that his father wasn’t the father he wanted and he never got what he wanted.

The therapist observed resistance during the session. During the free associations or association to dreams, the client may evidence an unwillingness to relate certain thoughts, feelings and experiences (Corey, pg. 75). Stan did a lot of thinking before speaking. The reason why is because he’s afraid if he says too much that it’s going to come back to haunt him. He felt like whatever he said in the past, it came back and haunt him. He gave an example when he was younger he said he had a crush on a girl at school. His mother made fun of him at the dinner table. He also stated that reason for him thinking before he speaks is because when he doesn’t get a lot of feedback then he thinks that he’s not doing things correctly. He gets nervous of what the therapist think of him. Stan compared the therapist to his father, thinking since his father felt negative about him so did the therapist. This transference relationship is a cornerstone of psychoanalysis and “refers to the transfer of feelings originally experience in an early relationship to other important people in a person’s present environment (Corey, pg. 67). Contemporary psychodynamic therapist focus as much on here and now transference as on earlier reenactment (Corey, pg. 69). He did so by bring the past into the present, understanding from the past can help unfold the problems. Contemporary psychodynamic therapists view their emotional communication with client as a useful way to gain information and create connections (Corey, pg. 69). Stan learned from this session recognizing when he shut himself off.

Another theory demonstrated in the clip was Adlerian Theory. Adlerian believes what we recall from our childhood, has an impact on our current and present life. The therapist asked Stan to think about some of his early memories. He thought of different memories from age one to six years old. The memory that stood out the most was when he was six years old. He remembered some kids trying to through a kitten on the roof. He reacted by trying fight them and stop them from hurting the kitten. This memory affect him because he felt sad and helpless. From this incident, he decided that nothing he does is going to matter. Some of the decisions he made as a child made an impact on his adult life. The impact it affects in his adult life was not being able to make a difference in his marriage and relationship with father. Stan hope from his therapy session to build his confidence and him not feel sad, helpless and stupid.

Adlerian theory will be used in a counseling session when you trying to see how someone perceive themselves and others in their life. This theory can help build your client self-worth and meaning. It will also create change that may result in healing. Psychoanalytic therapy can be used when someone have emotional concerns and someone who want to explore themselves. This theory can help your client to understand why they are the way they are. Psychoanalytic theory is a longer process; however, the results can be life changing also.

References.

Corey, G. (2013). Therapy and practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy (10th ed.). Australis: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.