PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lithium Carbonate, Chlorpromazine, Diazepam
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There seem to be 2 antagonistic orientations to the world (major theme #2) That is the main goal of psychotherapy, biological treatments, and. Freud believed the patient"s free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences--and the therapists interpretations of them--released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. Operant conditioning (especially in institutions, and with children) Treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to the things they and avoid. There"s nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. Drug class: antidepressants (tricyclics; mao; inhibitors; ssris) If you take a group of people who do extremely well on the first exam, they will inevitably do worse on the second exam. Chance factors led some to over perform. If you take a group of people who seek therapy, they will inevitably do better over time.
