PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, Virtual Reality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 202
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Any therapy that deals with the mind. Therapist tries to talk to patient to open up. Tries to gain insight of the patient and guides the patient to the solution to the problem. Doesn"t look at the patient"s feelings or emotions but rather at the observable symptoms. Tries to solve the problem by learning principles: biomedical therapies. Borrowing techniques from different types of therapies to treat a disorder. Ex: trying insight therapy as well as hypnosis: psychoanalysis. Recall: offshoot of freud"s psychoanalytic theory (id struggling to come out and ego tries to calm it and sometimes when id breaks free it happens in. The psychoanalyst must have gone psychoanalysis itself because if they have some sort of problem, they won"t be able to objectively help the patient. To uncover the underlying cause of the conflict by retracing the stages of psychosexual development and bringing the problem to consciousness so that the patient can gain insight.