Psychology 3301F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Electrodermal Activity, Cognitive Therapy, Exposure Therapy
15 Jan 2019
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What is psychotherapy: there are many ways to define what psychotherapy is: > you expose them to new thinking that they will not die if exposed to whatever they fear, and there"s learning that when they did get exposed, nothing happened. History of psychotherapy: epictetus: thought of as the most prominent of the "stoics" because they didn"t fear death, so it minimized the time they were angry and resentful, frustrated, marcus aurelius: first stoics roman emperor. "say to yourself in the early morning: i shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill Must be stable, highly motivated, verbal, psychotically minded able to tolerate stress without becoming overly distressed, distraught: analyst neutral, goal: structural reorganization of personality, techniques: interpretation, clarification, working through, dream interpretation, most rigorous: 3-5 times/week, lasts years, expensive. Defense mechanisms: everyone uses them, they are usually identified as:
