PSYC-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Old Ways, Sigmund Freud, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Winnipeg
• Department: PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSYC-1000
• Professor: Strub

Document Summary

Enduring improvement in: affect: feel better, less distress, cognition: think more rationally, behaviour: act more appropriately. When people have displayed unusual behaviours rooted in the mind, these people have often been locked away or "treated" using old ideas of mental illness. Old ways of getting rid of "the evil spirits" include: beating them out of people, bleeding them out, letting the spirits out through the holes drilled in the skull. Psychotherapy: an interactive experience with a trained professional, working on understanding and changing behaviour, thinking, relationships, and emotions. Biomedical therapy: the use of medications and other procedures acting directly on the body to reduce the symptoms of mental disorders. Combining therapies: medications and psychotherapy can be used together, and may help each other achieve better reduction in symptoms. Many medications increase synaptic neurotransmitter levels; they stop the sending neuron from taking back its chemical messages.