History and Modern Psychotherapy Flashcards
psychotherapy
how people develop distress and how to deal with it
foundations of psychotherapy
pre-christian retreats centers, tribal ceremonies, religious healing
hellenist physicians
- Hippocrates
- “do no harm”
- result of organic processes
2 people who were integral in early interest in the unconscious (17th-19th century)
Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz
- ahead of his time
- subliminal aim of study
Franz Anton Mesmer
- pioneer of hypnotherapy
4 key components of psychotherapy
patient/therapist rapport
importance of therapist characteristics and qualities
patient confidence in treatment
concept of spontaneous remission
3 roads of psychotherapy
psychologist-philosophers
natural science empiricists (lab)
- observe and record information that becomes knowledge
clinician-researchers
3 natural science empiricists
Gustav T Fechner and Herman von Helmholtz
- 19th century
- studying unconscious
Emil Kraepelin
- 19-20th century
- first DSM
- saw disconnect b/t lab findings/research and what’s happening in treatment
how was the first DSM organized?
classify: cause and course of disorder
establish benchmarks and easier to prove treatments are helping
3 psychologist-philosophers
arthur schopenhauer
- driven by blind, irrational fears
- The World as Will and Representation (1819)
carl gustav carus
- levels of unconscious that interact with others/role of the unconscious in communication
neitzsche
- we lie to ourselves more than we lie to others
biological sciences claim that the ____ and _____ can be separated when in reality they can’t
mind; body
epigenetics
study of gene expression that is altered by environment and input of stimuli coming in to us
bio-psycho-social approach
not separating these three components, understand how these components work together
cultural factors are a _____ influence in psychology
big
4 cultural factors in psychotherapy
demographics
culture
language shape experience
stigma
evidence-based treatment
what works, why it works and for whom it works
“theory of personality”
plain terms: what causes distress/why might someone develop distress?
continuum of health to illness