PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psychotherapy, Psilocybin, Mescaline

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerald Goldberg, Jenkin Ngo, Yin Mok

Document Summary

Intro: range of treatment approaches is vast from focusing on emotion, thought, and/or relationship to biomedical treatment that rely on medication or physical treatments. Cameron"s objective was to depattern the patients and to rid them of old behaviour patterns and replace them with new ones. Used electroconvulsive therapy, drug-induced periods of sleep, sensory deprivation, psychic driving, lsd treatment. Dr. osmond -coined term psychedelic to describe the experience users have after talking mescaline, psilocybin, or lsd. The elements of the treatment process: treatments- how many types are there: May be over 400 approaches to treatment; 3 major categories. Clients engage in complex verbal interactions with their therapists. Goal is to pursue increased insight regarding the nature of the client"s difficulties and to sort through possible solutions. 2) behaviour therapies based on principles of learning. Make direct efforts to alter problematic responses (e. g. phobias) and maladaptive habits (e. g. drug use) Most procedures use classical/operant conditioning or observational learning.