Therapy

1
Therapy

• It used to be that if someone exhibited abnormal
  behavior, they were institutionalized.
• Because of new drugs and better therapy, the U.S.
  went to a policy of deinstitutionalization.

2
Psychoanalytic Therapy

• Goal Help patients gain insight into their
  unconscious to confront the underlying causes
• Techniques Psychoanalysis, Free Association,
  Dream Interpretation

3
Behavioral Therapies

• Goal Unlearn maladaptive behavior, replace it
  with more adaptive behavior
• Techniques Systematic Desensitization, Flooding

4
Cognitive Therapy

• Goal Replace irrational thoughts with rational
  thoughts. Change negative perceptions into
  positive perceptions
• Techniques Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)

Change your view of the world
5
Biological Therapies

• Psychopharmacology
• Antipsychotics (thorazine, haldol)
• Anti-anxiety (valium, barbiturates, Xanax)
• Mood Disorders (serotonin reuptake inhibitors)
• Bipolar (lithium)

6
Somatic Therapy

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)- for depression.
• Psychosurgury
• Prefontal lobotomy