Therapy

Question 1

What are the 4 MAJOR KIDS of treatment for emotional disorders?

Answer 1

Psychoanalysis

• problems are caused by repressed, unconscious conflicts in childhood
• dream analysis
  • talk of what you are dreaming about
  • talk about what the dreams mean

Free Association
Talk about anything.

• Patients, unfortunately, may transfer their feelings to something else

Humanistic Therapy (think Maslow)

• objective: make you a better person to solve your own problem
• given: all people have the ability to grow emotionally; behavior may be bad but the person is always good.
• reflection / active listening is used
• “client centered”

Behavioral Learning Therapy

• Classical Conditioning
  (e. g. systematic desensitization for phobias)
• Operant technique
  (e. g. a token economy, used on institutionalized people)