5 credits
This course will integrate psychodynamic and humanistic theories of personality and psychopathology with the study of the technique of psychodynamically-informed and humanistically-informed psychotherapy. Attention will be given to actual case material and the role of the psychologist in treatment. The psychodynamic and humanistic perspectives on the psychotherapeutic process itself will be explored from a variety of viewpoints including the Freudian, Jungian, Rogerian, and that of Maslow. Students will be introduced to basic psychoanalytic and humanistic concepts of personality and psychopathology and their implications for psychotherapeutic technique.