PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Electroconvulsive Therapy, Psychosurgery
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Biopsychosocial approaches: most therapists are eclectic, tailor therapy to an individual client, psychotherapists work in collaboration with the medical practice. Medication: fewer people getting therapy and more getting medications, might not be a good thing, usually not neat and clean medications, side effects, want people to use caution taking the medication route. Psychosurgery: not something that we normally advocate, not a good model of how the brain normally works, very complex interconnected networks, history of psychosurgery, frontal lobotomy. Surgically separate frontal lobes from the rest of the brain. Sometimes used on psychotic patients: walter freeman lobotomobile . Stop in towns and do outpatient frontal lobotomies. Many patients underwent this procedure for no real reason. Mom"s had kids have frontal lobotomies: developed effective medications, which took over as treatment of choice, one of favorites of oppressive regimes. Neurofeedback: variation on biofeedback, adapting body consciously to reach a certain goal, experimental research methods, we have no adequate placebo control.
