PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Psychoanalysis, Schizophrenia, Thioridazine

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Talking about issues or problems and trying to create solutions: behaviour therapies: behaviour therapists make direct efforts to alter problematic responses (e. g. phobias), and maladaptive habits (e. g. responses (e. g. phobias), and maladaptive habits (e. g. drug use). The lack of threat should reduce client"s defensive tendencies and thus help them to open up through three conditions: genuineness: therapist must be genuine with a client, communicating honestly and spontaneously, unconditional positive regard: therapist must also show complete, nonjudgmental acceptance of the client as a person. Three things critics say about drug therapies: critics argue that drug therapies are not as effective as advertised and only last for a short amount of time. overmedicated, critics charge that many drugs are overprescribed and many patients, some critics charge that the damaging side effects of therapeutic drugs are underestimated by psychiatrists and some of these side effects are worse than the illness.