PSYC 2060U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gestalt Therapy, Existential Therapy, Behaviour Therapy
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Psychotherapy: any psychological technique used to facilitate positive changes in an individual"s personality or behaviour. Psychotherapy"s approach options: psychoanalysis, desensitization, cognitive therapy, gestalt therapy, client centred therapy, reality therapy, behavioural therapy, energy psychology, emdr, hypnotherapy. Approaches to treatment can be classified into four major categories: Insight therapies: behaviour therapies, biomedical therapies, psycho-sensory therapies. Demonology: study of demons and people beset by spirits, people were possessed, and they needed an exorcism to be cured. Exorcism: practice of driving off an evil spirit, especially from the body of a person who is possessed. Phillippe pinel: french physician who initiated humane treatment of mental patients in. Hysteria: physical symptoms (like paralysis or numbness) occur without physiological causes, now known as somatoform disorders. Freud became convinced that hysterias were caused by deeply hidden unconscious conflicts. Main goal of psychoanalysis: to resolve internal conflicts that lead to emotional suffering.
