Intro to Psychological Disorders, Psychoanalysis, and Psycho-dynamic Therapies
Dream analysis is an important component of this type of therapy.
What is psychoanalysis?
Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, these types of therapies seek to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment.
What are humanistic therapies?
This integrated therapy aims to modify both self-defeating thinking and maladaptive actions.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?
Psychoanalysts would suggest that resistance during therapy supports and maintains this process.
What is repression?
This type of therapy aims to improve psychological functioning by increasing patients' awareness of their own motives and defenses.
What are insight therapies?
The belief that no person is an island is the fundamental assumption of this type of therapy.
What is family therapy?
There are mental health therapies that involve prescribed drugs or other procedures that act directly on a patient's nervous system.
What are biomedical therapies?
When Murli told his therapist, “I came to see what you could do for me,” the therapist responded, “It sounds like you're feeling you need some help. Am I right?” The therapist's response illustrates this technique.
What is active-listening?
Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are most likely to be treated with this type of therapy.
What is psychotherapy?
This technique is derived from classical conditioning principles.
What is systematic desensitization?
Mr. Phillips has recently begun to express feelings of hostility and resentment toward his therapist, who is consistently friendly, caring, and helpful. A psychoanalyst would most likely consider Mr. Phillips's hostility to be an example of this.
What is transference?
Several years after his wife's death, Mr. Stattler remains incapacitated by feelings of guilt and sadness. To reduce Mr. Stattler's depression, a therapist is actively encouraging him to stop blaming himself for not being able to prevent his wife's death. The therapist's approach is most representative of this type of therapy.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy?