Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a set of techniques intended to improve mental health, emotional or behavioral issues in individuals, who are often call...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychotherapy: Alternative Medicine Dictionary Ii On Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy: Psychotherapists can treat a variety of mental disorders and emotional problems. This form of therapy often involves a ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a psychological technique, as psychoanalysis, group therap...   » Read the article

Article - Meridian Psychotherapy: Short Introduction To Meridian Psychotherapy
Meridian Psychotherapy the Meridians of Traditional Chinese Medicine not only affect our physical health and internal organs but also hav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychotherapy - History
Most psychotherapies are either direct descendants of psychoanalysis, or their founders started out in areas of psychoanalysis before dev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Rogers: Encyclopedia - Carl Rogers
Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, was t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brief Therapy: Encyclopedia - Brief Therapy
Brief therapy, sometimes also known as strategic therapy, is an umbrella term for a type of approach to psychotherapy. It differs from ot...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art Therapy: Encyclopedia - Art Therapy
Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses art-making and creativity to increase emotional well-being. Art therapy combines traditi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catharsis: Encyclopedia - Catharsis
Catharsis, Latin from the Greek Katharsis 'purification', is a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feeling...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychoanalysis: Encyclopedia - Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods within the field of psychotherapy that seeks to elucidate connections am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypnotherapy: Encyclopedia - Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is the application of hypnosis as a form of treatment, usually for relieving pain or conditions related to one's state of mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Psychology: Encyclopedia - Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology is the application of psychology within a clinical (health) setting. However, it is often taken to refer primarily to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia - Existentialism
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that views human existence as having a set of underlying themes and characteristics, such as a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antidepressant: Encyclopedia - Antidepressant
An antidepressant is a medication designed to treat or alleviate the symptoms of clinical depression. Some antidepressants, notably the t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gestalt Therapy: Encyclopedia - Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy, based on the experiential ideal of "here and now," and relationships with others and the worl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression
Clinical Depression is state of sadness or melancholia that has advanced to the point of being disruptive to an individual's social funct...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Psychotherapy: Natural Medicine Dictionary On Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy: Usually conducted by a trained, certified, or licensed therapist, psychotherapy is the treatment of individuals with em...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holistic Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Holistic Psychotherapy
holistic psychotherapy: Approach to psychotherapy promoted by Russian-born Reiki practitioner Katya Salkinder, M.A. it is a means of r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychedelic Psychotherapy - History
Psychedelic psychotherapy in the broadest possible sense of the term is likely as old as humanity's ancient knowledge of hallucinogenic p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychedelic Psychotherapy - Methods
The effects of psychedelic drugs on the human mind are complex, varied and difficult to characterize, and as a result many different "fla...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Shamanic Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Shamanic Psychotherapy
shamanic psychotherapy: Mode of spiritual healing based on shamanism and the doctrine of reincarnation. Its theory posits missing soul...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Spiritual Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Spiritual Psychotherapy
spiritual psychotherapy: Method promoted by Carol Weidberg, a psychoanalyst and intuitive. It includes dreamwork, and its theory affir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Psychotherapy History: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Psychotherapy History - Twentieth Century
Timeline of Psychotherapy history - 1900s. 1900 - Sigmund Freud published 'Interpretation of Dreams' marking the beginning of Psychoan...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pranic Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Pranic Psychotherapy
pranic psychotherapy: Subspecialty of Pranic Healing. It includes four healing techniques besides those of Pranic Healing: (a) &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Organismic Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Organismic Psychotherapy
organismic psychotherapy (humanistic body psychotherapy): Spinoff of Reichian Therapy developed by Malcolm Brown, Ph.D., and Katherine...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Body-centered Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Body-centered Psychotherapy
body-centered psychotherapy (body-oriented psychotherapy, body psychotherapy, direct body-contact psychotherapy, humanistic body psych...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Emotional-kinesthetic Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Emotional-kinesthetic Psychotherapy
Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP): Mode of body-centered psychotherapy among whose three foci is psychospiritual development. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Combine Spirituality And Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Combine Spirituality And Psychotherapy
Combine Spirituality and Psychotherapy: Eclectic integrative system developed and practiced by author Bernard Green, Ph.D. It includes...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Passion-for-life Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Passion-for-life Psychotherapy
Passion-for-Life Psychotherapy: Shamanistic method promoted by Batya D. Winninger, M.A., C.S.W. Its theory posits past lives.  ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Psychotherapy History: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Psychotherapy History - Nineteenth Century
Timeline of Psychotherapy history - 1880s. 1886 - Sigmund Freud opened in private practice in Vienna Timeline of Psychotherapy histo...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Body-oriented Psychotherapy: Alternative Treatment Dictionary On Body-oriented Psychotherapy
Body-Oriented Psychotherapy: This growing and wide-ranging field combines counseling with bodywork. Practitioners believe the most eff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Rogers: Encyclopedia Ii - Carl Rogers - Contributions To Psychology
'Rogerian psychotherapy' became widely influential, embraced for its humanistic approach. Rogers also made significant contributions to t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Body-oriented Psychotherapy: Massage Bodywork Dictionary On Body-oriented Psychotherapy
BODY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPY Body-oriented psychotherapy seeks to enhance the psychotherapeutic process by incorporating a range of mas...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Focusing-oriented Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Focusing-oriented Psychotherapy
Focusing (Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, Focusing-Oriented Therapy, Focusing Process, Focusing Therapy): Natural stepwise system of ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Body-oriented Psychotherapy: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Body-oriented Psychotherapy
BODY-ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPY: seeks to enhance the psychotherapeutic process by incorporating a range of massage, bodywork and movement...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catharsis: Encyclopedia Ii - 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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Person-centered Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Person-centered Psychotherapy - Core Concepts
Person-centered psychotherapy - Congruence. Rogers thought there were three selves in us: the self-concept, the real self, and the idea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism In Psychotherapy
With complete freedom to decide and being responsible for the outcome of said decisions comes anxiety--or angst--about the choices made. ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Body Oriented Emotional Release Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Body Oriented Emotional Release Psychotherapy
body oriented emotional release psychotherapy (Neo-Reichian emotional release work): Method promoted by Dee Cassella. Its theory posit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy
List of publications in psychology - The Interpretation of Dreams. Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900. Online version D...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Holistic Psychotherapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Holistic Psychotherapy
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Encyclopedia - Carl Rogers: Encyclopedia Ii - Carl Rogers - Biography
Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. His father was an civil engineer and his mother was a housewife and devout Chris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder - Treatment
Treatment for OCPD normally involves a combination of both psychotherapy and drug medications. It takes a significant amount of time to c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder - Treatment
Treatment for OCPD normally involves a combination of both psychotherapy and drug medications. It takes a significant amount of time to c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Social Anxiety: Encyclopedia Ii - Social Anxiety - Treatment
Effective treatments for each of the anxiety disorders have been developed through research. In general, two types of treatment are avail...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Primal Therapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Primal Therapy
primal therapy (primal scream therapy): Mode of psychotherapy developed by child psychologist Arthur Janov, author of The Primal Screa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Hakomi: Alternative Health Dictionary On Hakomi
Hakomi (Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy, Hakomi Body-Mind Process, Hakomi Body-Oriented Psychotherapy, Hakomi Method, Hakomi Method...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Socratic Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Socratic Method - Application
Socrates generally applied his method of examination to concepts that seem to lack any concrete definition; e.g., the key moral concepts ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Process Psychology: Alternative Health Dictionary On Process Psychology
process psychology (Dreambody approach, Dreambody Work, process oriented psychology, Process-Oriented Psychotherapy, Process Work): Sp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypnotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypnotherapy - History
The roots of medicine by therapy lie in ancient societies even earlier than the Ancient Egyptians and Ancient Indians . Religious rituals...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Perceptual Control Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Perceptual Control Theory - Research & Applications
Perceptual Control Theory - Economics. Perceptual Control Theory - Education. The International Association of Applied Control Theory...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Overview
Existentialism was inspired by the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychiatry: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychiatry - Contrast With Psychology
Psychiatry is practised by psychiatrists, who are medical doctors specializing in mental illness and who are therefore trained to prescri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Major Thinkers And Authors Associated With The Movement
Existentialism - Film directors. Ingmar Bergman Michel Gondry Eric Rohmer Alain Robbe-Grillet Richard Linklater David O. Russell Miche...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Rogers: Encyclopedia Ii - Carl Rogers - Quotes
"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria Dsm-iv-tr
The DSM-IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders (see also: DSM cautionary statement), defines obsessive compulsive pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder: Encyclopedia Ii - Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria Dsm-iv-tr
The DSM-IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders (see also: DSM cautionary statement), defines Obsessive-compulsive pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Overview
Although the term "Existentialism" is often -albeit wrongly- used by many fundamentalist groups to refer to what we now define as Postmod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Major Concepts In Existentialism
Existentialism differentiates itself from the modern Western rationalist tradition extending from Descartes to Husserl by rejecting the i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hypnotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Hypnotherapy - Relationship
The Hypnotist-Subject relationship has been feared by some due to the practice of stage performers. In a book by Erica Fromm, it has been...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism Before 1970
A forerunner of existentialism was Blaise Pascal. In 1670, he published the Pensées, in which he described many fundamental themes of ex...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism Since 1970
Although postmodernist thought became the focus of intellectuals in the 1970s and thereafter (whether the movement is strong today, and w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Major Concepts In Existentialism
Existentialism differentiates itself from the modern Western rationalist tradition extending from Descartes to Husserl by rejecting the i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism Before 1970
An early forerunner of existentialism was Blaise Pascal. In 1670, he published the Pensées, in which he described many fundamental theme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism Since 1970
Although postmodernist thought became the focus of intellectuals in the 1970s and thereafter (whether the movement is strong today, and w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Imagery: Traditional Medicine Dictionary On Directed Reverie Therapies
Imagery , Directed reverie therapies , Directed reverie therapy, Guided imagery, Imageries Psychotherapy Imagery: The use of mental...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Major Thinkers And Authors Associated With The Movement
Existentialism - Film directors. Ingmar Bergman Eric Rohmer Alain Robbe-Grillet Richard Linklater David O. Russell Michelangelo Antoni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Treatment
Treatment of depression varies broadly, and is different for each individual. Various types and combinations of treatments may have to be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Overview
Existentialism was inspired by the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmun...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Gestalt Therapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy (Gestalt, Gestalt Psychotherapy): Holistic approach cofounded by psychiatrist Fritz (Frederick) Perls (1893-1970), M.D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Major Concepts In Existentialism
Existentialism differentiates itself from the modern Western rationalist tradition extending from Descartes to Husserl by rejecting the i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism Before 1970
An early forerunner of existentialism was Blaise Pascal. In 1670, he published the Pensées, in which he described many fundamental theme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Existentialism Since 1970
Although postmodernist thought became the focus of intellectuals in the 1970s and thereafter (whether the movement is strong today, and w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Criticisms Of Existentialism
Herbert Marcuse criticized existentialism, especially in Sartre's Being and Nothingness, for projecting certain features, such as anxiety...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existentialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Existentialism - Major Thinkers And Authors Associated With The Movement
Existentialism - Film directors. Ingmar Bergman Michel Gondry Eric Rohmer Alain Robbe-Grillet Richard Linklater David O. Russell Miche...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Freud's Legacy
Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy. Freud trained as a medical doctor, and as such, he believed his research methods and conclusions were sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Freud's Legacy
Sigmund Freud - Psychotherapy. Freud trained as a medical doctor, and as such, he believed his research methods and conclusions were sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Treatment
Treatment of depression varies broadly, and is different for each individual. Various types and combinations of treatments may have to be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Signs And Symptoms
According to the DSM-IV-TR criteria for diagnosing a major depressive disorder (see also: DSM cautionary statement) one or both of the fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Types Of Depression
Major Depression, or, more properly, 'Major Depressive Disorder' (MDD) is characterized by a severely depressed mood that persists for at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Types Of Depression
Clinical depression - Major Depression. Major Depression, or, more properly, 'Major Depressive Disorder' (MDD) is characterized by a se...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Somatic Therapy: Alternative Health Dictionary On Somatic Therapy
somatic therapy (somatic disciplines, somatic methods, somatics, somatic techniques, somatic therapies): Field that encompasses aikido...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Socratic Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Socratic Method - Method
The Socratic method is a negative method of hypotheses elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and elimi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Books
Clinical depression - Books by psychologists/psychiatrists. Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F., Emery, G. (1987). Cognitive therapy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Books
Clinical depression - Books by psychologists/psychiatrists. Beck, A. T., Rush, A. J., Shaw, B. F., Emery, G. (1987). Cognitive therapy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Mania And Hypomania In Depression
The DSM-IV classifies depression and bipolar disorder as separate illnesses, but researchers such as Hagop Akiskal MD of the University o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Patients
This is a partial list of patients whose case studies were published by Freud, with pseudonyms substituted for their names: Anna O. = Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Patients
This is a partial list of patients whose case studies were published by Freud, with pseudonyms substituted for their names: Anna O. = Be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigmund Freud: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigmund Freud - Life
Freud was born Sigismund Schlomo Freud, into a Jewish family in Freiberg (Příbor), Moravia, the Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - Signs And Symptoms
According to the DSM-IV-TR criteria for diagnosing a major depressive disorder (see also: DSM cautionary statement) one of the following ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Introducing Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology. Nigel Benson Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books. Description...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Personality
List of publications in psychology - A Theory of Human Motivation. Abraham Maslow Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. (1943) Online ver...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Behaviorism
List of publications in psychology - Psychology as the behaviorist views it. John B. Watson Psychological Review, 20, pp. 158-177. Onl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Gestalt Psychology
List of publications in psychology - Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement. Max Wertheimer Experimental Studies of the Pe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Cognitive Psychology
Description: Importance: ... See also:List of publications in psychology, List of publications in psychology - Introducing Psychology,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Publications In Psychology: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Publications In Psychology - Clinical Psychology
Description: This publication was the foundation of the classification systems used in today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Menta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clinical Depression: Encyclopedia Ii - Clinical Depression - The Role Of Anxiety In Depression
Clinical depression - Anxiety. The different types of Depression and Anxiety are classified separately by the DSM-IV-TR, with the excep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychotherapy - Schools And Approaches
Psychoanalysis was the earliest form of psychotherapy, but many other theories and techniques are also now used by psychotherapists, psyc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychotherapy - General Description
Given that psychotherapy is restricted to conversations, practitioners do not have to be medically qualified. In most countries, however,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychotherapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychotherapy - Therapeutic Relationship
Research has shown that the quality of the relationship between the therapist and the client has a greater influence on client outcomes t...   » Read the article