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Ch 15. Psychology: Psychotherapy and Biomedical Therapy

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The treatment of emtoinonal, behavioral and interpersonal problems through the use psychological techniques designed to encourage understanding of problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, or relationships.

biomedical therapies

The use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat the symptoms associated with psychological disorders.

A type of psychotherapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconcious impulses, anxieties and internal conflicts

Free association

A technique used in psychoanalysis in which the patient spontaneously reports all thoughts, feelind and mental images as they come to mind, as a way of revealing unconcious thoughts and emotions.

In psychoanalysis, the patient's unconcious attempts to block the revelation of repressed memories and conflicts.