PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Amnesia, Psychosurgery, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

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Demons beating them out; letting them out through holes in skull. Gradual progression: possession insanity mental illness, asylums hospitals, punishment therapy. Eclectic to be open to and to combine different approaches. Psychotherapy: understanding and changing thoughts, feelings, relationships. Biomedical therapy: medication and procedures that act directly on the body to reduce symptoms. Psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapy: sigmund freud, melanie klein. Cognitive therapy, changing thoughts: albert ellis, aaron beck. Behavior therapy, using conditioning: b. f. skinner, joseph wolpe. Goals: into conscious awareness: self-insight: to bring unconscious conflicts, memories and feelings, to transform (cid:498)neurotic misery into common unhappiness(cid:499) Interpretation therapist suggests meanings of speech/ dreams etc. Types of interpretation: other statements made by patient. Interpretations that relates to: the internal state of the patient, the patient(cid:495)s childhood, the analyst: freud would sometimes say to patients (cid:498)i think you(cid:495)re saying that because you(cid:495)re angry with me(cid:499) Resistance: censoring of topics o words; blockages or silences. Dreams: themes or latent meanings in plot and symbolism.