PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: The Techniques, Mind Map, Behavior Modification
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In transference, the patient re-lives the childhood like virtual reality. However, in this new re-living, he/she begins to grow up again, with a parent (therapist) who is always willing to listen, understand, encourage, support, etc. The result is that the patient"s mind forms without the splittings, traumas, etc. Psychotherapies several kinds: behavioral modification, cognitive, psychiatry: all psychiatrists are medical doctors. Drugs (if a psychiatrists liberates the patient and gets to know them the patient will not end up needing drugs) It"s all about feeling loved and accepted. Freud is generally recognized as one of the great geniuses of all time equal to shakespeare, His great discoveries are: the nature of psychological health and ill-health. A group of people, the object-relations theorists, did a huge study of children. The single most important fact of childhood is: dependence. Its needs are: food, protection, warmth (e. g. , clothes), learning (e. g. , walk on two feet, talk, etc. )
