PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Schizophrenia, Psychoanalysis
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Biomedical therapies: psychosurgery last resort (ocd, depression, electroconclusive surgery (ect, last resort for severe depression, helps 2/3s of the 20 30% of people who don"t respond well to medication, increases neurotransmitter levels, but we"re not really sure how it works, side effect is retrograde amnesia, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms, depression, increases activity in left frontal lobe, drug therapies. Drug therapies: depression, three major classes of anti depressant medications, monoamine oxidase inhibitors (maois) serotonin & norepinephrine, tricyclics serotonin & norepinephrine, select serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) prozac blocks reuptake of serotonin, so excess serotonin is in the synapse, help 60 70% of patients. Types of psychotherapy: psychoanalysis (freud, emphasizes insight, client centered therapy (rogers, falls somewhere maybe in between emphasizing insight or action, cognitive therapy (beck, behavior therapy (wolpe, cognitive and behavioral therapy are often used together (cbt, both emphasize action.
