Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues in individuals, who are often called "clients". These issues often make it hard for people to manage their lives and achieve their goals. Psychotherapy is aimed at these problems, and attempts to solve them via a number of different approaches and techniques; commonly psychotherapy involves a therapist and client(s), who discuss their issues in an effort to discover what they are and how they can manage them. Because sensitive topics ...

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• Psychotherapy - General description
• Psychotherapy - History
• Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis
• Psychotherapy - Cognitive
• Psychotherapy - Humanistic
• Psychotherapy - Behavioral
• Psychotherapy - Brief counseling
• Psychotherapy - Schools and approaches
• Psychotherapy - Therapeutic Relationship
• Psychotherapy - Criticism
• Psychotherapy - Related lists

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Psychotherapy: Psychotherapists can treat a variety of mental disorders and emotional problems. This form of therapy often involves a patient talking out his or her fears and anxieties with a skilled listener. Psychotherapy is rooted in the work of Sigmund Freud and can treat depression, stress, eating disorders, sexual problems and many other ailments.

(See also: Psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Psychotherapy

the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a psychological technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.

Psychotherapy does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods. Behavior therapy aims to help the patient eliminate undesirable habits or irrational fears through the use of principles of conditioning.

(See also: Psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Meridian Psychotherapy the Meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine not only affect our physical health and internal organs but also have an influence over our emotional, mental and psychological make up. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) utilise the tapping off the acupoints on the meridians. By balancing the energy in the meridians the memory is not changed itself but changes the way a person feels about the emotion which is relieved.

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Most psychotherapies are either direct descendants of psychoanalysis, or their founders started out in areas of psychoanalysis before developing their own theories. Therefore, when describing the history of psychotherapy, most traditionally start with Freud. Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis. Although there are some bodies of thought in psychology without Sigmund Freud in their legacy, most can be traced back to his work starting in the 1880s in Vienna. Trained as a neurologist, Freud began noticing neurologi ...

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Psychotherapy, Psychotherapy - General description, Psychotherapy - History, Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy - Cognitive, Psychotherapy - Humanistic, Psychotherapy - Behavioral, Psychotherapy - Brief counseling, Psychotherapy - Schools and approaches, Psychotherapy - Therapeutic Relationship, Psychotherapy - Criticism, Psychotherapy - Related lists

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Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, was the founder of the humanist approach to psychology. He was also instrumental in the development of non-directive psychotherapy, which he initially termed Client-Centered Therapy. He later renamed it as the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) to reflect that his theories were meant to apply to all interactions between people, not just to those between therapist and client. Today PCA is also called pe ...

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• Carl Rogers - Biography
• Carl Rogers - Contributions to psychology
• Carl Rogers - Quotes

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Brief therapy, sometimes also known as strategic therapy, is an umbrella term for a type of approach to psychotherapy. It differs from other schools of therapy in that it emphasises direct and strategic intervention, whereby the therapist takes responsibility for working more pro-actively with the client, in order to treat clinical and subjective conditions faster under some circumstance. It also emphasises precision observation, utilization, and temporary suspension of disbelief t ...

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• Brief therapy - Founding proponents of brief therapy

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Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creativity to increase emotional well-being. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with specialized knowledge about the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of different art materials. As a mental health profession, art therapy is employed in many different clinical settings with many different types of patients. Art therapy is present in non-clinical settings as well, such as in art studios a ...

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• Art therapy - History
• Art therapy - Theories and Techniques
• Art therapy - Art Therapy Assessments and Research
• Art therapy - Clinical Settings and Patient Populations
• Art therapy - Non-Clinical Settings
• Art therapy - Professional Organizations

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Catharsis, Latin from the Greek Katharsis 'purification', is a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for living. Catharsis - Catharsis in psychotherapy. Catharsis is a form of emotional cleansing first defined by the Greek philosopher Aristotle. It originally referred to the sensation that would ideally overcome an audience upon fin ...

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• Catharsis - Catharsis in psychotherapy
• Catharsis - Other medical uses
• Catharsis - Religion

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Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections among unconscious components of patients' mental processes, and to do so in a systematic way through a process of tracing out associations. In classical psychoanalysis, the fundamental subject matter of psychoanalysis is the unconscious patterns of life as they become revealed through the analysand's (the patient's) free associations. The analyst's goal is to help liberate the analysand from unexamined ...

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• Psychoanalysis - History
• Psychoanalysis - Theories
• Psychoanalysis - The topographical model
• Psychoanalysis - The structural model
• Psychoanalysis - The economic model
• Psychoanalysis - The conflict model
• Psychoanalysis - The object-relational model
• Psychoanalysis - The intersubjective model
• Psychoanalysis - Techniques
• Psychoanalysis - Cost and length
• Psychoanalysis - Training
• Psychoanalysis - Other definitions
• Psychoanalysis - Psychoanalyses in groups
• Psychoanalysis - Cultural Adaptations
• Psychoanalysis - Adaptations for age and managed care
• Psychoanalysis - Play Therapy for different ages
• Psychoanalysis - Other play therapy techniques
• Psychoanalysis - Criticisms
• Psychoanalysis - Online papers about psychoanalytic theory
• Psychoanalysis - Online papers and links about psychoanalytic research
• Psychoanalysis - Critiques of psychoanalysis

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Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis as a form of treatment, usually for relieving pain or conditions related to one's state of mind. Practitioners believe that when a client enters, or believes he has entered, a state of trance, the patient is more receptive to suggestion and other therapy. The most common use of hypnotherapy is to remedy maladies like obesity, smoking, pain, ego, anxiety, stress, amnesia, phobias, and performance but many others can also be treated by hypnosis. Hypnotherapy - History. ...

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• Hypnotherapy - History
• Hypnotherapy - Relationship
• Hypnotherapy - Techniques

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Clinical psychology is the application of psychology within a clinical (health) setting. However, it is often taken to refer primarily to the easing of psychological distress, mental illness or mental health problems. The term was introduced in a 1907 paper by the American psychologist Lightner Witmer (1867-1956). Clinical psychologists are involved in the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders, as well as research about all of these areas of clinical practice. Their clinical work may includ ...

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• Clinical psychology - Related lists

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Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as anxiety, dread, freedom, awareness of death, and consciousness of existing, that are primary. That is, they cannot be reduced to or be explained by a natural-scientific approach or any approach that attempts to detach itself from or rise above these themes. Human beings are exposed to or, to use the philosopher Martin Heidegger's phrase, "thrown" into, existence. Existentialists consider being ...

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• Existentialism - Overview
• Existentialism - Major concepts in existentialism
• Existentialism - Existentialism before 1970
• Existentialism - Existentialism since 1970
• Existentialism - Criticisms of existentialism
• Existentialism - Existentialism in psychotherapy
• Existentialism - Major thinkers and authors associated with the movement
• Existentialism - Film directors
• Existentialism - Novelists and playwrights
• Existentialism - Philosophers
• Existentialism - Psychologists
• Existentialism - Theologians
• Existentialism - Existentialism in popular culture
• Existentialism - Film
• Existentialism - Humour

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An antidepressant is a medication designed to treat or alleviate the symptoms of clinical depression. Some antidepressants, notably the tricyclics, are commonly used off-label in the treatment of neuropathic pain, whether or not the patient is depressed. Smaller doses are generally used for this purpose, and they often take effect more quickly. Many antidepressants also are used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, and tricyclic antidepressants are used in the treatment of chronic pain disorders such as chronic functional abdominal pain (CFAP), m ...

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• Antidepressant - History
• Antidepressant - Classes and members
• Antidepressant - Classes
• Antidepressant - Prominent members
• Antidepressant - Mechanism of action
• Antidepressant - Treatment strategies
• Antidepressant - Switching
• Antidepressant - Augmentation and combination
• Antidepressant - Combining with psychotherapy
• Antidepressant - Preventing relapse
• Antidepressant - Tolerance and dependance
• Antidepressant - Side effects
• Antidepressant - General
• Antidepressant - Sexual
• Antidepressant - Opioids
• Antidepressant - Controversy
• Antidepressant - Alternative medicine

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Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy, based on the experiential ideal of "here and now," and relationships with others and the world. Drawing on the ideas of humanistic psychology, the school of Gestalt therapy was co-founded by Fritz Perls, Laura Perls and Paul Goodman in the 1940s-1950s. It is related to but not identical to Gestalt psychology and the Gestalt psychology-based Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy of Hans-Juergen Walter. Gestalt therapy - General description. The school of Gestalt therap ...

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• Gestalt therapy - General description
• Gestalt therapy - Principal influences
• Gestalt therapy - Being human
• Gestalt therapy - The human being seen as a whole
• Gestalt therapy - Formation of Gestalt
• Gestalt therapy - Contact boundaries
• Gestalt therapy - Organismic self-regulation
• Gestalt therapy - Psychotherapeutic bases
• Gestalt therapy - Actuality
• Gestalt therapy - Attention
• Gestalt therapy - Responsibility
• Gestalt therapy - Wider influence of Gestalt therapy on other schools
• Gestalt therapy - Moral injunctions of Gestalt therapy
• Gestalt therapy - Suggested sections

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Clinical Depression is state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social functioning and/or activities of daily living (ADLs). The diagnosis may be applied when an individual meets a sufficient number of the symptomatic criteria for the Depression spectrum as suggested in the DSM-IV-TR or ICD-9/10. It is important to note that an individual may suffer from what is termed a "clinical depression" without fully meeting the criteria for a specific diagnosis on the Depression spect ...

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• Clinical depression - Signs and symptoms
• Clinical depression - Types of depression
• Clinical depression - Anxiety and Stress in Depression
• Clinical depression - Mania and Hypomania in Depression
• Clinical depression - Causes of depression
• Clinical depression - Treatment
• Clinical depression - Medication
• Clinical depression - Psychotherapy
• Clinical depression - Transcranial magnetic stimulation
• Clinical depression - Vagus nerve stimulation
• Clinical depression - Electroconvulsive therapy
• Clinical depression - Other methods of treatment
• Clinical depression - Old methods
• Clinical depression - Relapse
• Clinical depression - Books
• Clinical depression - Books by psychologists/psychiatrists
• Clinical depression - Books by persons suffering or having suffered from depression
• Clinical depression - Sources

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Psychotherapy: Usually conducted by a trained, certified, or licensed therapist, psychotherapy is the treatment of individuals with emotional problems, behavioral problems, or mental illness primarily through the use of psychological techniques. These techniques are designed to encourage communication of conflicts and insight into problems, with the goal being relief of symptoms, changes in behavior leading to improved social and vocational functioning, and personality growth.

(See also: Psychotherapy, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

holistic psychotherapy: Approach to psychotherapy promoted by Russian-born Reiki practitioner Katya Salkinder, M.A. it is a means of releasing energy blocks created by unresolved emotional conflicts.

(See also: Holistic psychotherapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psychedelic psychotherapy in the broadest possible sense of the term is likely as old as humanity's ancient knowledge of hallucinogenic plants itself. Though usually viewed as predominantly religious in nature, elements of psychotherapeutic practice can be recognized in the entheogenic rituals of many cultures. The use of psychedelic agents in Western psychotherapy began in the 1950s, after the widespread distribution of LSD to researchers by its manufacturer, Sandoz Laboratories. Extensive research into experimental, chemotherapeutic ...

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Psychedelic psychotherapy, Psychedelic psychotherapy - History, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Methods, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Psycholytic Therapy, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Psychedelic Therapy, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Developments from 1980 — present

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The effects of psychedelic drugs on the human mind are complex, varied and difficult to characterize, and as a result many different "flavors" of psychedelic psychotherapy have been developed by individual practitioners. Some aspects of published accounts of methodologies are discussed below. Psychedelic psychotherapy - Psycholytic Therapy. Psycholytic therapy involves the use of low to medium doses of psychedelic drugs, repeatedly at intervals of 1-2 weeks. The therapist is present during the peak of the ...

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Psychedelic psychotherapy, Psychedelic psychotherapy - History, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Methods, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Psycholytic Therapy, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Psychedelic Therapy, Psychedelic psychotherapy - Developments from 1980 — present

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