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

THERAPY (CONT.) SUSPENSION OF NORMS FREE ASSOCIATION DREAM ANALYSIS TRANSFERENCE

THERAPY (CONT.) PERSONAL QUALITIES OF THERAPIST VERY IMPORTANT VERY LONG AND INTENSIVE CATHARSIS

STRENGTHS OF THEORY DEVELOPMENTAL ASPECT PEOPLE ARE OFTEN IRRATIONAL 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 CAN BE STANDARDIZED

COGNITIVE MOST USED IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY EFFECTIVE, AT LEAST IN SHORT RUN CHEAPER AND MORE EFFICIENT THAN DYNAMIC LESS DEPENDENT ON PERSONAL QUALITIES OF THERAPIST 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

HUMANISTIC FOCUS ON TOTAL EXPERIENCES OF INDIVIDUAL - BROAD HUMAN PROBLEMS MEANING, DEATH, FULFILLMENT OVERLY GENERAL AND DIFFUSE NOT REIMBURSED – NO SPECIFIC ILLNESS NOT WIDELY USED

SUMMARY MANY DIFFERENT PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES MOST FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY CHANGE EFFORTS FOCUS ON CHANGING PERSONALITY NOW LARGELY REPLACED BY BIOLOGICAL