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psychotherapy
psychotherapy treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods. Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy , although it may be used in combination with such methods. This type of treatment has been... Read more |
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group psychotherapy
group psychotherapy a means of changing behavior and emotional patterns, based on the premise that much of human behavior and feeling involves the individual's adaptation and response to other people. It is a process carried out in formally organized groups of three or more individuals who seek... Read more |
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Carl Ransom Rogers
ROGERS, CARL RANSOM(b. Oak Park, Illinois, 8 January 1902; d. La Jolla, California, 4 February 1987), psychology, counseling, psychotherapy.Rogers founded the client-centered, or person-centered, approach to psychotherapy. He pioneered techniques for quantifying and analyzing the raw data of... Read more |
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phobia
phobia (foh-biă) n. a pathologically strong fear of a particular event or thing. Avoiding the feared situation may severely restrict one's life and cause much suffering. Treatment is with behaviour therapy, especially desensitization or flooding. Psychotherapy and drug therapy are also... Read more |
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Carl Jung
Jung, Carl 1875-1961 FREUDIAN VERSUS JUNGIAN TRADITIONS THE STRUCTURE OF THE MIND AND ITS CONTENTS JUNG’S PERSONALITY TYPES THE NATURE OF MENTAL HEATH AND ANALYTICAL PSYCHOTHERAPY JUNG Read more |
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Antidepressants
Antidepressants Definition An antidepressant is a medication used primarily in the treatment of depression. Depression can occur if some of the chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain are not functioning effectively. There are three specific chemicals that can affect a person's mood:... Read more |
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psychosocial
psychosocial (sy-koh-soh-shăl) adj. involving or relating to both the social and psychological aspects of a patient's life. p. assessment an interviewing technique that combines psychiatric history taking with elements of problem solving in psychotherapy, often used in patients who have... Read more |
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narcosis
narcosis , state of stupor induced by drugs. The use of narcotics as a therapeutic aid in psychiatry is believed to have a history dating back to the use of opium for mental disorders by the early Egyptians. Prolonged narcosis was employed at the beginning of the 20th cent.; its chief value was the... Read more |
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Carl Rogers
ROGERS, CARL (1902–1987) American psychologist and therapist, Carl R. Rogers relied on personal experience as well as scientific inquiry to guide his methodology, much of which foreshadowed late-twentieth-century practice of psychotherapy. Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to a... Read more |
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pedophilia
pedophilia psychosexual disorder in which there is a preference for sexual activity with prepubertal children. Pedophiles are almost always males. The children are more often of the opposite sex (about twice as often) and are typically 13 years or age or younger; they may be within or outside the... Read more |
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Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is the term applied to a wide variety of efforts to foster personal...a causal agent in self‐fashioning. Still, the birth of psychotherapy as a set of determinate ideas and clinical procedures awaited the... |
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psychotherapy
psychotherapy Treatment of a psychological disorder by nonphysical methods. It is...and the development of a rapport between patient and therapist. Psychotherapy is often based on psychoanalysis, but also sometimes on behaviour... |
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clinical psychology
...psychologists are engaged in diagnosis of disorders and in treatment including behaviour therapy and other forms of psychotherapy. Clinical psychologists may work with psychiatrists, but do not usually have medical training themselves. |
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cognitive therapy
cognitive therapy Form of psychotherapy that aims to treat psychological problems through changing patients' attitudes and beliefs. It is based on the theory that behaviour... |
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Freudianism
Freudianism. See Psychology; Psychotherapy. |
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Combat Trauma
...electric shock treatments—betraying their conviction that combat trauma was a form of malingering; others resorted to psychotherapy, the still‐novel “talking cure.”Fully a year before the entry of the United States into the war in April 1917... |
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PSYCHOBABBLE
...US journalist Richard D. Rosen: compare TECHNOBABBLE]. A form of JARGON in which terms from psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and related fields are used to impress the listener, give an appearance of scientific objectivity to mundane ideas... |
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Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis. See Psychology; Psychotherapy. |
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phallic symbol
...seemed to rely almost exclusively on sexual and genital symbolism. With the passing of psychoanalysis as a central mode of psychotherapy, jokes about shrinks seeing a phallus in every cigar have become rather less topical. For those seriously interested in... |
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Pharmaceutical Industry
...chemotherapeutic revolution, from the laboratory to the home medicine cabinet.See also Drugs, Illicit; Medicine; Mental Illness; Psychotherapy; Research Laboratories, Industrial.Bibliography Tom Mahoney , The Merchants of Life: An Account of the Pharmaceutical... |
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psychotherapy
psychotherapy •croupy, droopy, goopy, groupie, loopy, pupae, roupy, snoopy...philanthropy •aromatherapy, chemotherapy, hypnotherapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, radiotherapy, therapy •entropy • syrupy (US sirupy) • chirpy |
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group therapy
group therapy n. 1. (group psychotherapy) psychotherapy involving at least two patients and a therapist. The patients are encouraged to understand and analyse their own and one another's problems. See also encounter group, psychodrama... |
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AGPA
AGPA American Group Psychotherapy Association |
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canopy
...satrapy •lycanthropy, misanthropy, philanthropy •aromatherapy, chemotherapy, hypnotherapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, radiotherapy, therapy •entropy • syrupy (US sirupy) • chirpy |
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chirpy
...satrapy •lycanthropy, misanthropy, philanthropy •aromatherapy, chemotherapy, hypnotherapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, radiotherapy, therapy •entropy • syrupy (US sirupy) • chirpy |
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colonoscopy
...satrapy •lycanthropy, misanthropy, philanthropy •aromatherapy, chemotherapy, hypnotherapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, radiotherapy, therapy •entropy • syrupy (US sirupy) • chirpy |
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dumpy
...satrapy •lycanthropy, misanthropy, philanthropy •aromatherapy, chemotherapy, hypnotherapy, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, radiotherapy, therapy •entropy • syrupy (US sirupy) • chirpy |
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encounter group
encounter group (in-kown-ter) n. a form of group psychotherapy. The emphasis is on encouraging close relationships between group members and on the expression of feelings. |
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Eysenck, Hans Jurgen
...and psychoanalysis, including the results from an experiment which seemed to show that distressed people who were given psychotherapy recovered no more quickly than did those who did not receive any such treatment. In his autobiography (Rebel with a Cause... |
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gestalt
...Germany in 1912, seeking to explain perceptions in terms of gestalts rather than by analysing their constituents.Gestalt psychotherapy a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Fritz Perls (1893–1970). It focuses on insight into gestalts in patients... |
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therapy
therapy • noun 1. limbs responding to therapysynonyms: treatment, remedy, cure. 2. receiving therapy for depressionsynonyms: psychotherapy, psychoanalysis. |
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Psychotherapy and antidepressant for panic disorder.
...agoraphobia, is usually treated with psychotherapy, with or without antidepressants...small, testing different types of psychotherapy, with different controls, and with...nine to 15 weeks. Different types of psychotherapy were used. Behaviour therapy consisted... |
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Psychotherapy Supervision: A Theory, Research, and Practice Study.
...December 2008-Research and Markets: Psychotherapy Supervision: A Theory, Research...researchandmarkets.com/research/03a07d/psychotherapy_supe) has announced the addition...Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research, and... |
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Psychotherapy-driven supervision: integrating counseling theories into...
...strengths of mental health counselors, psychotherapy-driven supervision advocates blending psychotherapy-based approaches to supervision with...supervision. Strengths and weaknesses of psychotherapy-based approaches are discussed... |
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Psychotherapy--an active agent: Assessing the effectiveness of psychotherapy...
...expansion in research on psychotherapy in two areas...effectiveness of psychotherapy compared to wait...patients undergoing psychotherapy surpassed no-treatment...that the effect of psychotherapies were equal to, or... |
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Psychotherapy in Russia: Historical backgrounds and current practice
...mental health, including psychotherapy. In this article, the...unfavorable toward Western-style psychotherapy. Also, the closely knit...main criticism of Western psychotherapies was that their main emphasis...historical background of psychotherapy in Russia. ... |
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PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH PIONEER HANS STRUPP DIES
...psychologist Hans H. Strupp, who helped psychotherapy gain legitimacy as a scientific discipline...in the study of the effectiveness of psychotherapy and the processes that accounted for...therapy known as time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. "One could reasonably argue ... |
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Psychotherapy Supervision: a Theory, Research, and Practice Study.
...researchandmarkets.com/research/290b68/psychotherapy_supe) has announced the addition...Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "Psychotherapy Supervision: Theory, Research, and...current, and accessible guide to psychotherapy supervision, consult Psychotherapy... |
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Psychotherapy services for students with emotional or behavioral disorders: A...
ABSTRACT Psychotherapy has been advocated as a critical mental health service...there are several questions concerning the provision of psychotherapy services: (a) Is psychotherapy a related service as defined by the Individuals with... |
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Psychotherapy as a regulated profession considered in Ontario.(HEALTH)
Toronto -- Should psychotherapy be a regulated health profession in Ontario? This...the province, opposes any law creating a licensed psychotherapy profession. "Psychotherapy is an intervention and not a profession" the OASW... |
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Psychotherapy in psychiatry--reality, delusion or relic?(l)(Editorial)
...daily life in mindfulness.'(1) Psychotherapy has been viewed as a core clinical...reconsider this and related questions. Is psychotherapy still a necessary and wanted skill...rapidly expanding. Simultaneously psychotherapy has received more and more attention... |
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