PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Electric Generator, Fluoxetine, Neuroscience
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Psychotherapy: generic name given to formal psychological treatment. Biological therapies: medical approaches to illness and to disease. Psychopharmacology: use of medications that affect brain/body functions. Freud believed disorders were caused by prior experiences and early traumatic experiences; pioneered the method of psychoanalysis: treatment involved uncovering unconscious feelings and drives that were thought to lead to maladaptive thoughts/behaviors. General goal is for patient to gain insight: awareness of unconscious processes and how they affect daily functioning. Now, psychodynamic therapy involves examining patient"s needs, defences and motives. Use of this therapy is controversial: evidence for effectiveness in most mental disorders is weak. Goal is to treat the person as a whole, not collection of behaviors or repository of repressed thoughts. Client-centered therapy (rogers): an empathic approach to therapy; encourages personal growth through self- understanding therapists are empathic, taking client"s perspective and accept client w/ unconditional positive regard. Uses reflective listening: therapist repeats client"s concerns to help person clarify feelings.
