PSY 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Franz Mesmer, Herbert Graf, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
5 Dec 2016
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Psychotherapy: treatment designed to improve symptoms of psychological disorder through conversation btwn therapist & patient/client. Many ppl w/ psychological disorders do not receive care. John cade: searched for alternatives, lithium. Franz anton mesmer: mesmerized, tried to use hypnosis to treat people with hysteria. Humanistic therapy: a therapy approach patterned after the theories propsed by humanistic psychologists. Carl rodgers & humanistic psychologists rebelled against psychoanalysis: established new approaches of counseling psych. Counseling: treatment originally prposed by humanistic therapists that includes a fosu on personal stregnths & dvlpmnt, now used to refer to treatment for adjustment problems (as opposed to treatment for severe psychological disroders) Evidence based practice (ebp: began in med. , spead to psychotherapy & other helping professions. Benjamin rush: the father of american psychiatry , believed psychological disorders: caused by irritation of blood vessels in brain invented tranquilizers chair. Psychotherapist: a licensed professional who provides psychotherapy, psychiatrist:
