PSYC 2000 Lecture : Psychological Therapies Class Notes
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Therapies: treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively, psychotherapy: talks with a psychological professional, biomedical therapy: treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms. Psychoanalytical: psychoanalysis: an insight therapy based on the theory of freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts. Therapist does not try to put her own interpretation or opinions. Therefore the only useful thing therapy can really do is: exposure therapy: address the behavior. Inability of people with severe disorders to tolerate being in a group. Clients tend to overestimate the effectiveness of psychotherapy because they enter therapy in crisis. Can you really understand the need for a client to be committed to a husband she never met in an arranged marriage if you as a. Westerner believe that true love should begin with passion/intimacy: therapists can project their own values without achieving true empathy.
