PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Behaviour Therapy, Psychotherapy
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Psychological therapies: treat the mind, mind, talk therapy seems to work the same as drug therapy. There is clearly an interaction between what people say and how you feel: works better for depression and anxiety over drug therapy, but drug therapy is prescribed because it"s cheaper. Somatic / biological therapies: brain disorders, drug therapy, there are very few disorders where you have to have the drugs. Both psychological and biological therapies work equally, but it"s said a combination of both of these work best: normally they work together. Psychanalytical psychotherapies: the problems that you have, you don"t realize them, they are subconscious, the type of therapy free association, say whatever comes to mind, and eventually the issue will come up & you"ll figure it out. Eventually you will say something that comes from the subconscious: drugs are cheaper talk therapy takes years sometimes.
