Insight Resistance Interpretation Transference

Definition

Insight - Awareness into one’s own mental processes. Resistance - An unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness. Interpretation - The analyst’s noting supposed dream meanings resistances & other significant behaviors & events in order to promote insight. Transference - The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships.

Related terms

Psychoanalysis:

A therapeutic approach that focuses on bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness to better understand psychological disorders.

Free Association:

In psychoanalysis, a method by which the patient reveals their unconscious thoughts by saying whatever comes to mind.

Repression:

In psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism where unpleasant or undesirable memories are pushed into the unconscious.