does not deny the role of intrapsychic conflict but emphasizes the striving of the ego for mastery and competence throughout the life span
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Provided a detailed and comprehensive description of personality structure and functioning
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Irrational forces are strong; the person is driven by sexual and aggressive impulses
Gestalt Therapy
cultural clients might benefit from integrating polarities within themselves.
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Brought into prominence factors such as the unconscious as a determinant of behavior and the role of trauma during the first 6 years of life
Psychoanalytic Method for revealing unconscious
Slips of the tongue and forgetting
Existential Theory
rejects deterministic views
Adlerian Therapy
key concepts include striving for significance and superiority
Existential Therapy
Important to recognize survival issues
Adlerian Therapy
Moved away from Freud’s deterministic point of view and towards social-psychological and teleological (goal-oriented) view of nature – nurture is more significant that nature
