PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Interpersonal Psychotherapy, Dorothea Dix, Philippe Pinel
6 Aug 2012
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Textbook: psychology tenth edition in modules authored by david g. myers. Philippe pinel and dorothea dix gentler, more humane treatments, constructing mental hospitals. Since 1950s, the introduction of effective drug therapies and community-based treatment programs have emptied most of those hospitals. Psychotherapy: trained therapist uses psychological techniques to assist someone seeking to overcome difficulties to achieve personal growth. Biomedical therapy: offers medication or other biological treatments. Psychotherapy uses a trained therapist, biomedical therapy uses medicine and eclectic uses both. Goals: to bring patients" repressed or disowned feelings into conscious awareness. By helping them reclaim their unconscious thoughts and feelings and giving them insight into the origins of their disorders, he aimed to help them reduce growth-impending inner conflicts. Techniques: after discarding hypnosis as an unreliable excavator, freud turned to free association. Free association relax, sits out of your line of vision, say aloud whatever comes to mind, noticing you edit thoughts as you speak.
