PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Reuptake, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Neuroprotection
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Chapter eight - treatments for depressive and bipolar disorders. Around half of persons with unipolar depression (major depressive of dysthymic disorder) receive treatment from a mental health professional each year. In addition, many other people in therapy experience depressed feeling as part of another disorder -- thus, much of the therapy being done today is for unipolar depression. A variety of treatment approaches are currently in widespread use. These can be divided into psychological, sociocultural, and biological approaches. Believing that unipolar depression results from unconscious grief over real or imagined losses, compounded by excessive dependence on other people, psychodynamic therapists seek to bring these issues into consciousness and work through them. Psychodynamic therapists use the same basic procedures for all psychological disorders: free association therapist interpretation review of past events and feelings. Despite successful case reports, researchers have found that long-term psychodynamic therapy is only occasionally helpful in cases of unipolar depression. Short-term approaches have performed better than traditional approaches.
