PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Giovanni Fava, Human Potential Movement
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The treatment psychotherapy was fathered by freud who took josef breurs research with. Anna o that proved that talking to clients helped relieve some physical ailments. Procedures can be classified into three main categories; insight therapies, behavioural therapies, and biomedical therapies. This can be done on individual to individual or in groups. The psychotherapist tries to directly alter behaviour (phobias, maladaptive behaviour) through classical, operant, or observational conditioning. These therapies attempt to work on the biological level. Drug therapy and electro shock therapy are often in this category. There are limitations on what kind of psychological, usually only a psychiatrist or a person with a medical degree, that can conduct these sorts of therapies. There are several ways to get professional mental health. However the two primary careers are for psychologists and psychiatrists. Clinical social workers, counsellors and marriage counsellors can also do some treatment.
