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.
Analogy
Think of these terms as parts of a play. Insight is the script that helps you understand your character (yourself). Resistance is like stage fright, preventing you from fully embracing your role. Interpretation is the director's guidance to help you better understand your character and the story. Transference is like getting so into your role that you start projecting characteristics of other characters onto those around you.
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.
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