Getting Help - Psychotherapy: Crash Course Psychology #35
TLDRThis video explores different schools of psychotherapy used to treat mental health issues. It overviews Freud's psychoanalysis, focusing on the unconscious; existential-humanist therapy, empowering self-understanding; behavior therapy, modifying actions to change emotions; and cognitive therapy, transforming thought patterns. It also mentions group therapy's social benefits and family therapy's systemic approach. The video asks if psychotherapy works, setting up further discussion on treatment efficacy in the next video, along with biomedical options. Overall, it reviews how various therapy orientations aim to help people gain insight, achieve personal growth, and overcome inner troubles.
Takeaways
- 😀 Psychotherapy involves a therapist helping a patient overcome troubles, gain insight, and achieve growth using various techniques
- 💡 Major schools of psychotherapy include psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive
- 🧠 Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the unconscious and past experiences to gain insight
- 😌 Existential-humanistic therapy promotes self-acceptance and maximum potential
- 👍 Behavior therapy aims to change problematic behaviors directly
- 🤔 Cognitive therapy focuses on changing negative thought patterns
- 🎓 Group therapy provides social support and reminds people they are not alone
- 👪 Family therapy views individual issues as connected to the family system
- 📈 Most types of psychotherapy have been found effective for many conditions
- ☝️ Determining the best type of therapy depends on the nature of the psychological issues
Q & A
What are the four major schools or orientations of psychotherapy?
-The four major schools or orientations of psychotherapy are psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive therapies.
How does psychoanalysis help patients according to Freud?
-Psychoanalysis served as a kind of historical reconstruction that helped patients access repressed feelings and memories and unconscious thoughts, by using free association and dream analysis with helpful interpretations from the therapist, until they gained some self-insight.
What is the difference between psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy?
-Psychoanalysis refers specifically to Freud's therapy focusing heavily on the id, ego and superego. Psychodynamic therapy encompasses ideas from Freud as well as Jung, Adler and others, focusing more broadly on gaining insight into unconscious forces and childhood experiences.
What is client-centered therapy developed by Carl Rogers?
-Client-centered therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, involves the therapist providing an empathetic, genuine and accepting environment and using active listening to help the client feel safe, valued and able to work towards self-actualization.
How does behavior therapy differ from psychoanalysis?
-Behavior therapy focuses directly on changing problematic behaviors rather than gaining insight into unconscious drives. It utilizes techniques like counter-conditioning, exposure therapy, systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning.
What thought patterns does cognitive therapy aim to change?
-Cognitive therapy focuses on identifying and reversing self-defeating, irrational and catastrophic thought patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression and other problems.
What does group therapy offer that individual therapy does not?
-Group therapy allows clients to interact with others facing similar issues, providing social benefits and reminding them they are not alone in their struggles.
How does family therapy differ from individual therapy?
-Family therapy treats the family as an interconnected system and views an individual's issues as influenced by or directed at other family members. The focus is on healing relationships and improving family dynamics.
What evidence is there that psychotherapy is effective?
-The video says the question of whether psychotherapy works will be addressed in a future video, so no clear answer is provided in this script.
What major types of psychotherapy were summarized?
-The major types summarized were psychodynamic therapy including psychoanalysis, existential-humanistic therapy like client-centered therapy, behavioral therapies, cognitive therapies, group therapy and family therapy.
Outlines
😨 Bernice's Mental Health Struggles and Types of Psychotherapy
Introduces Bernice, who suffers from depression, anxiety, and low self-worth that is affecting her life. Discusses different types of psychotherapy she can seek help from - psychodynamic therapy rooted in Freud's psychoanalysis focusing on the unconscious, existential-humanistic therapy focused on self-actualization, behavior therapy aimed at changing problematic behaviors, and cognitive therapy targeting thought patterns.
😌 How Different Therapies Could Help Bernice
Explains how different therapies would approach helping Bernice - a psychodynamic therapist would analyze her unconscious thoughts and memories, an existential therapist would have her confront difficult emotions in the present, a behavior therapist would use exposure methods to treat her phobias, and a cognitive therapist would work to change her irrational, catastrophic thinking patterns.
🤔 Evaluating Effectiveness of Psychotherapy
Mentions evaluating if psychotherapy works, and the biomedical therapy approach. Recaps the major psychotherapy orientations covered - psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive. Notes group and family therapy variations. Concludes by thanking viewers.
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Keywords
💡psychotherapy
💡psychoanalysis
💡free association
💡existential therapy
💡behavior therapy
💡cognitive therapy
💡group therapy
💡family therapy
💡integrative therapy
💡biomedical therapy
Highlights
Psychotherapy involves a therapist using techniques to help a patient overcome troubles, gain insight, and achieve growth.
Different psychotherapy techniques take different perspectives on analyzing and treating mental health issues.
Psychoanalysis involves free association and dream analysis to help patients access repressed thoughts until they gain self-insight.
Psychodynamic therapy focuses on helping people gain insight into unconscious forces and childhood experiences.
Humanistic therapy emphasizes people's capacity for growth and self-acceptance.
Client-centered therapy provides an empathetic environment to help clients accept themselves and work towards self-actualization.
Existential therapy helps people face anxieties around mortality to maximize meaning and potential.
Behavior therapy aims to replace problematic behaviors with more functional ones through conditioning.
Cognitive therapy focuses on changing self-defeating thoughts in order to change related behaviors.
Group therapy provides therapeutic benefits through interacting with others facing similar issues.
Family therapy views individual issues as influenced by family relationships and dynamics.
Integrative therapy combines elements of different schools of therapy.
Does psychotherapy actually work? That question will be explored next.
This episode covered major psychotherapy types like psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral and cognitive therapies.
Group and family therapies were also introduced.
Transcripts
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