PSYC1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Major Depressive Disorder, Classical Conditioning
Psychotherapy!
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Psychopharmacology!
Stress!•
Bipolar!•
Clinical Depression!•
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Psychology -> feel, think, behave!
fits well with 3 types of therapy, basic kinds!•
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1) Psychoanalytic Therapists -> feeling, Freudian or Neo-Freudian !
2) Cognitive Therapists -> thinking, way patient conceptualized problems!
3) Behaviorist Therapists -> behaving, using behavioral techniques, reinforcement!
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in general, most of them make the same assumption!•
go to a therapist with 1 of 3 problems (thinking, behaving, feeling)!◦
many therapists identify themselves as eclectic -> they say they can give whatever a person •
needs!
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All say the same things!
Psychoanalytic -> treat emotions, basic problem is emotion bound!
when they can remediate emotions, your behavior and thinking will follow suit!•
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Cognitive -> change the way you're thinking, if we do, then feelings and behavior will change!
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Behavior -> if you behave the right way, change thinking and feeling!
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PSYCHOANALYSIS!
strong emphasis on impulses and wishes and emotion -> repressed, in the unconscious!•
feelings manifest in adulthood as a negative symptoms!•
mild negative symptoms!◦
major negative symptoms !◦
distinguish how bad you feel and how much does it interfere with your daily life !‣
happens early in childhood!•
uncover what happened earlier!◦
resulting feelings you're left with !◦
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Psychic Determinism -> early on, these changes take place which determine how we change
over time!
there is a cause for every symptom in adulthood!◦
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discover the roots and the causes of our behavior!•
help you relieve them, early relationships with others which were the cause of this ◦
repression!
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Strict Psychoanalysis -> therapist and patient create a relationship which is mean to mimic the
early relationship between the patient and their parent!
