THERAPY COME TO UNDERSTAND UNDERLYING CAUSES MAKE UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS OVERCOME RESISTANCE OF PATIENT

THERAPY (CONT.) SUSPENSION OF NORMS - FREE ASSOCIATION DREAM ANALYSIS TRANSFERENCE VERY LONG AND INTENSIVE CATHARSIS

STRENGTHS OF THEORY DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECT PEOPLE ARE OFTEN IRRATIONAL BEST EXPLANATION OF BIZARRE SORTS OF NEUROSES IMPACT ON CHILD REARING AND SEXUALITY IMPACT ON ART AND LITERATURE

WEAKNESSES UNSCIENTIFIC - UNOBSERVABLE AND UNFALSIFIABLE OVEREMPHASIZES EARLY CHILDHOOD, UNDEREMPHASIZES ADAPTABILITY RESISTANCE TO MEDICATIONS HISTORICALLY AND CULTURALLY SPECIFIC

WEAKNESSES OF THERAPY LITTLE EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS IMPRACTICAL - EXPENSIVE, LONG, CULTURALLY-SPECIFIC DOESN’T WORK WITH MOST SERIOUSLY ILL

DECLINE OF DYNAMIC THEORY – 1970’S TO PRESENT CONFLICT WITH SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NORMS CONFLICT WITH INSURANCE NEEDS TO MEASURE DISEASES AND CURES RISE OF MANAGED CARE CONFLICT WITH RISE OF DRUGS COULDN’T TREAT SERIOUSLY ILL

CURRENT PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY NO SINGLE THEORY BUT ECLECTIC

COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL EMPHASIS ON THOUGHTS EMPHASIS ON CURRENT PERCEPTIONS CHANGE WAYS PERSONS THINKS ABOUT SELF AND WORLD SPECIFIC, DIRECTIVE, AND SHORT THERAPIES

COGNITIVE MOST USED IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SEEMS EFFECTIVE, AT LEAST IN SHORT RUN CHEAPER AND MORE EFFICIENT THAN DYNAMIC WEAKNESS IS WHEN ACTUAL CONDITIONS CAUSE PROBLEMS

FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY VIEW SYMPTOMS IN RELATIONSHIP TO FAMILY SYSTEM SYMPTOMS TO MAINTAIN FAMILY EQUILIBRIUM MUST CHANGE FAMILY DYNAMICS, NOT JUST INDIVIDUAL PATIENT TREAT FAMILY, NOT INDIVIDUAL

FAMILY SYSTEMS STRENGTH IS THEORY WEAKNESS IS PRACTICE – BOTH CURRENT FAMILY AND FAMILY OF ORIGIN NOT WIDELY USED

HUMANISTIC FOCUS ON TOTAL EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUAL CONCERN WITH BROAD HUMAN PROBLEMS MEANING, DEATH, FULFILLMENT UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD

HUMANISTIC OVERLY GENERAL AND DIFFUSE NOT WIDELY USED NOT REIMBURSED – NO SPECIFIC ILLNESS