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Misunderstand And Misinterpret The Unconsciousness

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Elsa, SUI XINRU
True statement 1: For psychoanalysis, it is possible for therapists to misunderstand and misinterpret the unconsciousness of patients. Thus psychoanalysis is not an exact and accurate therapy method.
Psychoanalysis is an approach that aimed to detect the inner thoughts inside a person, namely the unconsciousness, and associated it with consciousness to treat mental disorders, meanwhile, contributed to relieving the fear and conflicts in the mind. Nonetheless, even though through certain techniques, such as free association, dream analysis, and analysis of transference, it still required therapists to interpret the abstract and symbolic thoughts of patients. Taking free association as an example, when patients speak out some …show more content…

And from this perspective, psychoanalysis is a unique and effective therapy method.

True statement 2: Cognitive psychology, which explained human behaviors through examining the brain activities with scientific and technical methods, was served as the most convincing method of psychological therapies.
With the assistance of advanced technical devices, cognitive psychology brought in a new concept that interpreting the purposes of human behaviors from the aspect of scientific examinations of brain activities. It is of high credibility in the realm of contemporary psychology, because it makes the unconscious thoughts visible through the images of brain activities. For example, the fMRI, which enables therapists to have a picture of where the brain is activated, and give proper suggestions, medicines, and even surgeries towards certain symptoms.
Nevertheless, it is not an always correct method of therapies, because with the development of technology and cultural values, other better therapies may arise soon and substitute it.

False statement: Behaviorism is the best explanation of the purposes of human

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