Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Central Nervous System, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Antidepressant

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Goal of treatment: help change maladaptive thoughts, feelings, behaviours. Resources: psychologists & psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, marriage & family counsellors, pastoral counsellors, abuse counsellors. Procedures that remove or destroy parts of brain. Destroy nerve tracts to frontal lobes: won egas moniz nobel prize, decreased with advent of antipsychotic drugs. Cuts bres that connect frontal lobes and limbic system: useful in severe depression & ocd. Psychoanalysis: based on freudian principles, goal: help patients achieve insight. Insight = conscious awareness of psychodynamics underlying problems: adjust behaviour underlying problems learned in childhood. Free association: uncensored conversation, verbal reports of thoughts, feelings, or images that enter awareness without censorship. Dream interpretation: therapist helps clients understand to symbolic meaning of their dreams. Resistance: defensive maneuvers that hinder process of therapy, sign that anxiety-arousing material in being approached. Client responds irrationally to therapists like he/she was important gure from clients past: brings out repressed feelings & maladaptive behaviours.