PSYC 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cognitive Therapy, Operant Conditioning, Trepanning
28 Sep 2017
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Psychologists use two basic categories of techniques to treat psychological disorders: psychological and biological, either alone or in combination. Psychotherapy: general name given to formal psychological treatment. Aimed to help person understand symptoms and problems and provide solutions. Biological therapies: treatment of psychological disorders based o medical approaches to disease (biological wrong) and the illness (how the person feels). Insight: the goal of psychoanalysis; a client"s awareness of his or her own unconscious psychological processes and how these process affect daily functioning. > according to psychoanalysis, client"s symptoms diminish as a result of reducing unconscious con icts. Psychodynamic therapy: a form of therapy based on freudian theory; it aims to help clients examine needs, defences, and motives as a way of understanding distress. > talking therapy, looking for patterns and themes in thoughts and feeling, discussing early traumatic experiences. > resistance : break through unwillingness or inability to discuss. > transference : interpret emotions transferred to the therapist.
