Final Exam pt 5

Question 1

List the major psychotherapies know main points, goals, approach of each.

Answer 1

-Psychoanalysis - insight into unconscious origins
Free association (Freud)
-Humanistic - conscious, responsibility for growth
Client-centered - active listening; “psychological mirror”
-Behavior therapy - learning principles
Counterconditioning (systematic desensitization; aversive conditioning)
-Cognitive therapies - “thinking colors feelings”

Question 2

Who used free association in psychoanalysis?

Answer 2

Sigmund Freud

Question 3

What is free association?

Answer 3

the mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any apparent connection

Question 4

Which psychotherapy is “best”?

Answer 4

none it depend on the individual and disorder

Question 5

What benefits do all psychotherapies tend to offer?

Answer 5

make a diagnosis, and puts a label and could begin treatments necessary

Question 6

Be familiar with therapies:

Answer 6

-Psychopharmacology: Medications
(Antipsychotics
Antianxiety drugs
Antidepressants)
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)-a procedure that conducts electricity through the brain
- Psychosurgery (removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.)

Question 7

Psychosurgery history

Answer 7

Freeman-Watts - drilled holes on either side of the head

• 1847-Phineas Gage
• 1890-Gottlieb Burckhardt, Germany, drilled, extracted material
• 1935 - chimpanzees
• 1939 - 1951, US, “over 18,000 lobotomies were performed