Therapy

Question 1

Psychoanalytic Therapy

Answer 1

• reduce inner conflict by giving patients insight into their unconscious thoughts and feelings
• pauses indicate resistance and therapist interprets resistance to provide insight into your inner conflicts
• transference: transfer emotions linked to other people to analyst

Question 2

Humanistic Therapy

Answer 2

• boost people’s self-fulfillment and promote self growth
• be genuine, empathetic, and employ active listening and reflection on feelings

Question 3

Behavioral Therapies

Answer 3

• eliminate unwanted behavior without worrying about self-awareness or insight
• do through classical conditioning (exposure therapy or pair aversive stimulus with unwanted behavior) and operant conditioning techniques

Question 4

Cognitive Therapies

Answer 4

• teach people new, more constructive ways of thinking and feeling
• reveal, test, and change beliefs

Question 5

Biomedical Therapies

Answer 5

• use anti-psychotic (block dopamine receptor sites to dampen responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli), anti-anxiety (depress CNS activity and enhance GABA, which makes you feel calm), or anti-depression medication (blocks reuptake of serotonin, which increases amount in synapse and magnifies effects)
• electroconvulsive shock therapy: give general anesthetic and give current (triggers seizure)
• transcranial magnetic stimulation: sends painless magnetic field through skull to alter brain activity