PSYC 4030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behaviour Therapy, Tabula Rasa, Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing
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This lecture will be important for paper #2. Going to talk about the role of behavior therapist through comparing to other types of therapists. Audio recording started: 7:05 pm monday, september 19, 2016. Different dimensions of therapy, exploring questions of personal journey--your perspective about yourself. First we need to get a basic understanding of schools of thought before we go into different dimensions. Is all about finding a way to deal with conflict in real life setting. Idea is to work through all the trauma we have been through that create intrapsychic conflict. Try to get a good understanding of what happened to us in the past, work it through and as a result become happier. Watson, skinner, bandura = critics of psychodynamic therapy. Started in the 1960s very popular to this day. Behavior therapists only focus on what can be seen and is present. Different subtypes: existential, gestalt, client centered, emotion focused.