1. Psychotherapy
Unit 12

2. Psychotherapy What is it? What is involved?
Psychiatrists vs. Psychologists
Types
Insight
Behavior
Biomedical
Other

3. Insight Therapy Psychoanalysis therapies Psychodynamic therapies
Techniques (from Freud)
Free association
Dream Analysis
Analyzing Resistance
Analyzing Transference
Interpretation
Psychodynamic therapies

4. Insight Therapy Cognitive therapies Self-talk Cognitive Restructuring
Albert Ellis: Rational-Emotive Therapy
A: Activating Event
B: Belief System
C: Consequence
D: Disputing
Aaron Beck
Selective Perception
Overgeneralization
Magnification
All-or-Nothing Thinking

5. Insight Therapy Humanistic Therapies
Carl Rogers: Client-centered therapy
1. Empathy
2. Unconditional positive regard
3. Genuineness
4. Active Listening
Gestalt therapy
Fritz Perls

6. Insight Therapy Group, Family, and Marital therapies Group
Advantages
Self-help group
Family and Marital

7. Behavioral Therapies Classical Conditioning Counterconditioning
Mary Cover Jones
Systematic desensitization
Joseph Wolpe
Exposure techniques
Flooding
Aversion Therapy

8. Behavioral Therapies Operant Conditioning Observational Learning
Target Behavior
Token Economy
Shaping
Aversion Therapy
Observational Learning
Modeling

9. Biomedical therapies Psychopharmacology Anti-anxiety drugs
Boost GABA
Valium, Xanax
Anti-psychotic drugs
Block dopamine activity
Haldol, Clozaril
Thorazine – Tardive Dyskinesia
Mood Stabilizers
Lithium, Depakote
Anti-depressants
SSRI’s (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
Keep serotonin active in the synapse
Tofranil, Nardil, Prozac, Buspar, Effexor

10. Biomedical therapies
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
Psychosurgery