PSY-35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Major Depressive Disorder, Pharmacotherapy
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Psychoanalytic treatment tries to help the client achieve insight into the repressed con ict and often encourages outward release of the hostility directed inward. Aim is to uncover latent motivations for the clients depression. Guide client to confront the fact that they feel that way and then help them realize any guilt is unfounded. Recovery of memory of stressful childhood circumstances should also bring relief. No controlled data on the ef cacy of long term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Short psychodynamic supportive psychotherapy is as effective as antidepressants for people with mild to moderate mdd. Combined therapy was superior to pharmacotherapy alone. Psychodynamic therapy concentrated on present-day interactions between the. Depressed person and the social environment (interpersonal therapy) Helps depressed people examine the ways in which their current interpersonal behaviour might interfere with obtaining pleasure from relationships. Aims to improve relationships and better understand interpersonal problems. Exploration of and encouragement to express negative feelings. Improvement of both verbal and non-verbal communications.
