10.4 Therapy

Just give a feeling for the existing therapies.

• Psychodynamic therapy
  • Build at ideas of Freud.
  • The problems that people struggle with that bring them to the therapist’s office are symptoms. You should focus instead on underlying causes.
  • Classical Freudian Psychoanalysis is a lengthy process, often going on for years, involving many sessions a week, and involves techniques like free association, the therapist might say some words and the patient will say something back, and dream analysis, where dreams are explored in order to give insight into what the mental problem is.
• Behavior therapy
  • Motivated by B.F.Skinner
  • operant conditioning are used to reinforce good behaviors and diminish bad behaviors
  • many of the treatments of phobia use the techniques of classical conditioning, where objects that would frighten you, instead of being associated with fear, you learned to associate them with relaxation and calm.
• Cognitive therapy
  • Identify incorrect distorted ways of thinking
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • brings together the techniques to work
• Medical Interventions
  • antipsychotics for schizophrenics, anti-anxiety drugs