Mental illness involves both diagnosis and treatment

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Mental illness involves both diagnosis and
treatment

• Psychological therapies-planned, emotionally
  charged confiding interaction between a trained
  healer and a sufferer.
• Types of therapy
• psychoanalysis/psychodynamic
• humanistic
• behavioral
• cognitive

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Psychoanalysis

• Freudian approach to solving problems
• unconscious mind is critical
• childhood problems fuel psychological problems
• Methods
• free association
• interpretation of dreams latent content

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Successful therapy

• Analyst would want patient to see that
• Complaint is part of a pattern present in daily
  life
• Insight into the reasons why complaint was valid
  at the time
• Goal is to have better relations with self and
  others
• Analyst takes an active role

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Humanistic Approach

• Focus on
• potential for self fulfillment
• present and future
• conscious thoughts and beliefs
• Client centered therapy involves
• active listening echoing, restating, and
  clarifying
• acceptance and understanding not directive

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Successful Therapy

• Person feels valued and accepted
• Increase persons self acceptance
• Ability to perceive experience more accurately
• Move away from focusing on others expectations to
  self direction and openness

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Behavioral Approaches

• Applies operant and classical conditioning
  principles (of learning) to eliminate unwanted
  behaviors
• Types
• 1) Systematic desensitization-gradually introduce
  object that makes one tense substitutes positive
  response for negative one (e.g., getting over
  fear of elevators)

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Behavioral, cont.

• Aversive conditioning replaces positive response
  with negative one associates unwanted behavior
  with a negative outcome (e.g., getting over
  alcohol addiction

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Aversion Therapy for Alcoholism
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Cognitive therapy

• Teaches people new constructive ways to think
• Assumes that thinking colors feelings
• For example, with depression important to develop
  self serving biases
• Identify negative (irrational) thoughts and
  practice a more positive approach

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A Cognitive Perspective on Psychological Disorders
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Cognitive Therapies for Depression
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