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| Read the passage given below and answer the question given below: There are various types of therapeutic methods that are used by psychotherapists is to help their patients. Some of them focus on acquiring self-understanding; other therapies are more action-oriented. All approaches hinge on the basic issue of helping the patient overcome her/his debilitating condition. The effectiveness of a therapeutic approach for a patient depends on a number of factors such as severity of the disorder, degree of distress faced by others, and the availability of time, effort and money, among others. One such therapeutic method is that where the therapist may be seen as the punitive father, or as the negligent mother. The therapist maintains a non-judgmental yet permissive attitude and allows the client to continue with this process of emotional identification. The therapist encourages this process because it helps her/him in understanding the unconscious conflicts of the client. The client acts out her/his frustrations, anger, fear, and depression that s/he harboured towards that person in the past, but could not express at that time. The therapist becomes a substitute for that person in the present and this is helpful in making the therapist aware of the nature of intrapsychic conflicts suffered by the client. Further, the client idolises, or falls in love with the therapist, and seeks the therapist’s approval. Another one is present when the client has feelings of hostility, anger, and resentment towards the therapist. |
| Which therapeutic method is discussed in the passage? |
Behaviour therapy Existential psychotherapies Psychodynamic therapy Cognitive therapy |
| Psychodynamic therapy |
| Psychodynamic therapy is of the view that intrapsychic conflicts, i.e. the conflicts that are present within the psyche of the person, are the source of psychological problems. |
