1. Treatment of Psychological Disorders

2. Psychoanalytical Free Association
Freudian technique of discovering the unconscious mind
patient relaxes
and says whatever
comes to mind, no
matter how trivial
or embarrassing

3. Humanistic Active Listening
Therapist listens without interpreting and does not direct the client (patient) to any particular insight

4. Behavioral Systematic Desensitization
Associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli; commonly used for phobias

5. Behavioral Aversive Conditioning
Purposefully associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior;
commonly used to treat the sexual deviancy of child molesters
(and alcoholism)

6. Cognitive Teach clients to think constructively
(example: avoid self-blame & overgeneralization to help w/ depression)
Adopt optimistic explanatory style by recording day’s good events and the role the person played in each event

7. Biomedical Therapies
Treatment of psych disorders that involve changing the brain’s functioning by using:
prescribed drugs
electroconvulsive therapy – a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient; used for major depressive disorder
surgery (lobotomy) – cuts the nerves that connect the frontal lobes of the brain to the deeper emotional centers; was used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients

8. ECT

9. Lobotomy