changes occurring as a result of utilizing knowledge buried in the unconscious were said to be changes that supported personal growth allowing the patient to more fully become who he truly was. In other words, it was inner knowledge that assisted patients to become self-actualized persons and it was the barriers to this inner knowing that needed removal.
The second reason changes occurring as a result of access to unconscious learnings were said to be permanent was because they were changes supported by cultural reinforcement. Without this support, the techniques were said to amount to nothing more than brainwashing such as when Americans renounced their country while prisoners in Korea but then repented of and changed their feelings once they had been repatriated. An interesting implication of this view is that to some extent personal growth behavior is not independent from its cultural reinforcers.
4) Discuss in detail the concept of intrapsychic change.
Patients in therapy, regardless of the diagnoses, all suffer from habitual patterns of dysfunctiona
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