PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Harry Stack Sullivan, Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Exposure Therapy
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Interpersonal therapy of depression is a procedure specifically designed to intervene in depressive disorders. It is based on a background to the mindset of psychiatry that became known in the. Interpersonal psychiatry starts from the work of adolf meyer and harry stack sullivan. It incorporates some ideas from social psychiatry and takes up the conceptions of social roles of the. However, it is not an application to depressive disorders of the general principles of interpersonal psychiatry. This intervention was built based on a number of evidence from five research fields. These fields highlight the importance of interpersonal events in depressive disorders. Interpersonal therapy of depression is a psychotherapy focused on the psychosocial and interpersonal problems of the person who demands treatment. This therapy does not derive directly from psychoanalysis, behaviorism, or cognitive therapy. However, it uses some of the concepts of these currents.
