PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Mental Disorder, Main Source, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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The last 50 years have seen significant advances in the development and scientific evaluation of treatments for psychological disorders. The range of treatment approaches is vast; ranging from those focusing on emotion, thought and/or relationships, to biomedical treatments that rely on medication or physical treatments. Cameron"s objective was to depattern the patients and to rid them of old behaviour patterns and replace them with new ones. Dr. osmond coined the term psychedelic to describe the experience users have after taking mescaline, psilocybin or lsd. Dr. osmond is also responsible for giving aldous huxley his first experiences. Lsd was also used in treatment in the social therapy unit at ontario"s maximum- with hallucinogens security psychiatric institution. Freud is credited with launching modern psychotherapy; freud however, actually involved a patient who actually was treated by one of his colleagues, josef breuer. Breuer treated a patient named anna o (this is a pseudonym; her real name was.
