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| pschotherapies, including psychodynamic and humanistic-existentual approaches, with the goal of expanding awareness or insight |
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- Free association: technique in which patients express themselves without censorship of any sort
- Interpretation: from the string of free associations analysts form hypotheses regarding the origin of the patient's difficulties
- Dream Analysis: dreams express unconcious themes that influence the patient's daytime experience
- Resistane: attempts to avoid confrontation and axiety associated with uncovering previously repressed thoughts, emotions and impulses
- Transference: projecting intense, unrealistic feelings and expectations from the past onto the therapist
- Work through: to confront and resolve problems, conflicts, and ineffective coping responses in everyday life
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Systematic desensitization: patients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed to what they fear in a stepwise manner
Exposure therapy: therapy that confronts patients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear |
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| cognitive-behavioural therapy: treatment that attempts to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with more adaptive, rational cognitions |
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| 80% of treatment people have better outcomes than the average untreated person |
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| use of medication to treat psychological problems |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| patients recieve brief electrical pulses the brain that produce a seizure to treat serious psychological problems |
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brain surgery to treat psychological problems
Vagus nerve Stimulation: implanted under breast bone in cases of serious treatment-resistant depression |
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