PSYA02H3 : chpt 18 txt nts

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Chapter 18: the treatment of mental disorders: client- therapist relationship, talk therapy / therapeutic alliance. Psychodynamic therapy freud"s psychoanalysis= basis: insight therapy -- mental energy, free association & dream interpretation = freud (therapists= detectives, resistance and defensiveness & transference, carl rogers: client- centered therapy (warm & genuine. A: long term feels more beneficial: all talk-therapies = equal effectiveness (marriage counselling not that effective though, family docs & mental health specialists: Family docs: 48% drugs & therapy, 15% counselling, 37% drugs. Specialists: 4% drugs, 80% therapy, 17% drugs & therapy: early treatment of mental disorders: trephining (drilling holes, escape hatch 4 evil spirits) Insight therapies: emphasize talk, identify & understand problem & maladaptive behaviour stops: goal: interpret/ understand clues about origins of intra-psychic conflict. Psychoanalysis aka psychodynamic therapy reflect diff b/w now & then: contemporary therapists address concerns in client"s present life rather than childhood, modern psychodynamic therapists- ego plays more active role.