Chapter 15 Lecture Note
Therapy
• Therapy - treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively.
• Psychotherapy - therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional.
• Insight therapies - psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
• Action therapy - psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.
• Biomedical therapy - therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem is treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms.
Treatment in the Past
• Mentally ill people began to be confined to institutions called asylums in the mid-1500s.
• Treatments were harsh and often demanding.
• Philippe Pinel became famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness, personally unlocking the chains of inmates in France.
Freud’s Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalysis - an insight therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts.
• Dream interpretation
• Manifest content – the actual content of one’s dream. • Latent content – the symbolic or hidden meaning of dreams.
• Free association – Freudian technique in which a patient was encouraged to talk about anything that came to mind without fear of negative evaluations.
• Resistance - occurring when a patient becomes reluctant to talk about a certain topic, either changing the subject or becoming silent.
• Transference - in psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.
Psychoanalysis Today
• Psychodynamic therapy - a newer and more general term for therapies based on psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on transference, shorter treatment times, and a more direct therapeutic approach.
• Nondirective - therapy style in which the therapist
• Therapy - treatment methods aimed at making people feel better and function more effectively.
• Psychotherapy - therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem talks with a psychological professional.
• Insight therapies - psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
• Action therapy - psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.
• Biomedical therapy - therapy for mental disorders in which a person with a problem is treated with biological or medical methods to relieve symptoms.
Treatment in the Past
• Mentally ill people began to be confined to institutions called asylums in the mid-1500s.
• Treatments were harsh and often demanding.
• Philippe Pinel became famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness, personally unlocking the chains of inmates in France.
Freud’s Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalysis - an insight therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscious conflicts.
• Dream interpretation
• Manifest content – the actual content of one’s dream. • Latent content – the symbolic or hidden meaning of dreams.
• Free association – Freudian technique in which a patient was encouraged to talk about anything that came to mind without fear of negative evaluations.
• Resistance - occurring when a patient becomes reluctant to talk about a certain topic, either changing the subject or becoming silent.
• Transference - in psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.
Psychoanalysis Today
• Psychodynamic therapy - a newer and more general term for therapies based on psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on transference, shorter treatment times, and a more direct therapeutic approach.
• Nondirective - therapy style in which the therapist