Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Fluoxetine, Psychosurgery, Imipramine

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Surveys indicate that nearly 30 percent of north americans have sought psychological counselling from professional at some point in their lives. Counselling and clinical psychologists make up one group, who typically hold a ph. d. or psy. d. Psychiatrists are medical doctors who specialize in psychotherapy and biomedical treatments, such as drug therapy. Psychiatric social workers, marriage and family counsellors receive master"s degrees based on two years of highly focused and practical training. Pastoral counsellors who tend to focus on spiritual issues, and abuse counsellors who work with substance and sexual abusers and their victims. Goal of psychoanalysis is to help clients achieve insight, the conscious awareness of the psychodynamics that underlie their problems. Free association: freud believed that mental events are meaningfully associated with one another, so that clues to the contents of the unconscious are to be found in the constant stream of thoughts, memories, images, and feelings we experience.