Psychoanalytic Techniques
The patient lays on a couch and reports thoughts, feelings, and mental images to the psychoanalyst.
Free Association
created Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
insight therapy, behavior therapy, and biomedical therapy
The three main therapies
reduces anxiety and produce relaxation
Anti Anxiety drugs
Analyzed dreams to interpret conflicts, motives, and desires.
Analyzing Dreams
Created rational emotive therapy
Albert Ellis
Irrational beliefs and negative thoughts cause psychological problems
Cognitive therapy
treat depression by inhibiting the reuptake of neurotransmitters
Anti depressant drugs
Creating a close relationship between the client and the therapist in order for the therapist to conclude an interpretation of the patients hidden conflicts.
Offering interpretation
Created a form of cognitive therapy to help treat depression
Aaron Beck
helps people overcome obstacles that interfere with reaching their full potential
Humanistic therapy
treat manic episodes and depression characteristic of bipolar disorders
mood-stabilizing drugs
The patients conscious and unconscious attempts to hide unwanted memories and experiences.
Analyzing resistance
Created client centered therapy
Carl Rogers
uses psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive therapy to treat psychological disorders
Biomedical therapies
how drugs affect mental processes and behavior
psychopharmacology
The patient projects unresolved conflicts onto the therapist to help gain insight upon past relationships.
Analyzing transference
created systematic desensitization
Joseph Wolpe
pairs an unpleasant stimulus with the maladaptive behavior
Aversion Therapy
decrease dopamine synapses in the brain to eliminate hallucinations, delusions, and other symptoms of schizophrenia
Antipsychotic drugs