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Chapter 18 the t reatment of psychological disorders. Trephining drilling holes in a person"s skull; earliest known attempts to treat psychological disorders. Philippe pinel french physician, believed that mental patients would respond favourably to kind treatment. Eclectic approach involves the therapist"s using whatever methods he or she feels work best for a particular client at particular time; most therapist adopt this approach. Insight therapy practitioners of this type of therapy assume that people are essentially normal but learn maladaptive thought patterns and emotions, which are revealed in maladaptive behaviours; view behaviour as a symptom of deeper underlying psychological problems. Psychoanalysis (freud) form of therapy aimed at providing the client with insight into their unconscious motivations and impulses; recall psychodynamic approach. Superego representing the moral dictates of society. Main goal of the psychoanalyst is to interpret the clues about the origins of intrapsychic conflict given by the client.
