PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Tricyclic Antidepressant, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Electroconvulsive Therapy

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Psychotherapy: the generic name given to formal psychological treatment. Biological therapies: treatment based on medical approaches to illness and to disease: psychopharmacology is the use of medications that affect brain or body functions, sometimes biological therapies long-term success may require the person to continue treatment indefinitely. Insight: a goal of some types of therapy; a patient"s understanding of his or her own psychological processes. Treatment involved uncovering unconscious feeling and drives that, freud believed, gave rise to maladaptive thoughts and behaviours. Techniques included: free association in which the client would say whatever came top mind, dream analysis in which the therapist would interpret the hidden meaning of the client"s dreams. In the past few decades, psychodynamic therapy has become increasingly controversial: expensive and time consuming, and sometimes continues for many years. Some promise is shown by psychodynamic therapy in treating certain disorders, such as borderline personality disorder: evidence for treating most other mental disorders is very weak.