01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Electroconvulsive Therapy, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Professor Stephen Killianski

Document Summary

Instead of emphasizing personal insights, behavior therapists make direct efforts to alter problematic responses and maladaptive habits. Clinical /counseling psychologists- specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems. Psychiatrists- physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders. Chapter 16 treatment of psychological disorders page 1. Insight therapies- involve verbal interactions intended to enhance clients" self -knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior. Psychoanalysis- insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference. Free association- clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible. Patient may subconsciously be saying words that can be psychoanalyzed. Dream analysis- therapist interprets the symbolic meaning of the client"s dreams. Interpretation- refers to the therapist"s attempts to explain the inner significance of the client"s thoughts, feelings, memories, and behavi ors.