| Term | Definition |
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| psychotherapy | an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 685) |
| biomedical therapy | prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 686) |
| eclectic approach | an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 686) |
| psychoanalysis | Freud's theory of personality and therapeutic technique that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences—and the therapist's interpretations of them—released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 686) |
| interpretation | in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 687) |
| resistance | in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 687) |
| transference | in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent). (Myers Psychology 8e p. 687) |
| active listening | empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 689) |
| client-centered therapy | a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.) (Myers Psychology 8e p. 689) |
| behavior therapy | therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 690) |
| counterconditioning | a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning. Includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 691) |
| exposure therapies | behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 691) |
| aversive conditioning | , a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol). (Myers Psychology 8e p. 692) |
| systematic desensitization | a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 692) |
| virtual reality exposure therapy | An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 692) |
| token economy | an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 693) |
| cognitive therapy | therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 695) |
| cognitive-behavior therap | a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior). (Myers Psychology 8e p. 697) |
| family therapy | therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 697) |
| regression toward the mean | the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 702) |
| meta-analysis | a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 703) |
| psychopharmacology | the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 711) |
| tardive dyskinesia | involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 712) |
| electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) | a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 715) |
| repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) | the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 716) |
| lobotomy | a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 717) |
| psychosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior. (Myers Psychology 8e p. 717) |
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