PSYC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sigmund Freud, Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Therapy
31 Mar 2016
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Psychotherapy: an interactive experience with a trained professional, working on understanding and changing behavior, thinking, relationships, and emotions. Biomedical therapy: the use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders. An eclectic approach uses techniques from various forms of therapy to fit the client"s problems, strengths, and preferences. Medications and psychotherapy can be used together, and may help the each other achieve better reduction in symptoms. Approaches to psychotherapy in the 21st century. This chart shows the percentage of psychologists (from among 1,000 members of the american psychological association"s division of psychotherapy) who have various primary psychotherapy orientations (adapted from norcross et al. , 2002). Sigmund freud (1856-1939) found that the unusual symptoms of patients sometimes improved when repressed inner conflicts and feelings were brought into conscious awareness. Psychoanalysis refers to a set of techniques for releasing the tension of repression and resolving unconscious inner conflicts.
