Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy• Talking cure• Relationship• Communication• Understanding

Psychotherapy

Types• Individual Supportive Dynamic Cognitive Behavioral * Group Supportive Dynamic Behavioral

Supportive psychotherapy

Supportive psychotherapy• Understanding, empathic, humanistic• No exploration, Just ventilation,• , reassurance, manipulation of life situation,

coping 

Supportive psychotherapy

Indications• General all medical disorders• Specific crises and chronic and low prognosis

cases

Supportive psychotherapy

• Technique• Listening, reassurance, explanation,

suggestion, ventilation• Can be done by psychiatristو doctor, nurse,

psychologist, and social worker

Analytic psychotherapy

• Psychoanalytic theory• Drive, instincts,• Personality structure id, ego, superego• Unconscious intrapsychic forces,• Conflicts,• Personality development stages • Symbolic meaning of symptoms• Genesis of symptoms, early social relations,

neutrality

Analytic psychotherapy

• Aim• Meaning, insight• Process• Relationship, alliance• Transference and countertransference• Resistance• Cathexis

Analytic psychotherapy

• Technique• Examining repeated themes• Clarification, Suggestion, confrontation

Analytic psychotherapy

• Criteria of selection• * Problem understandable by psychological

terms• * Motivation,• introspection,• intelligence, verbal fluency, • capacity for communication and relationship• adequate ego strength• others age,optimistic,

Analytic psychotherapy

Factors in therapist• Empathic, respectful, realistically hopeful, self

awareness, reliable, assurance without arrogance, genuine

Analytic psychotherapy

Indications• character disorders• neurosisTypes• Focal• Psychoanalysis

Cognitive therapy

Cognitive therapy• Active role• Determination of thoughts• Running hypothesis• Testing hypothesis• Conclusion, looking for alternative• Diary

Cognitive therapy

Indications• Depression• Anxiety, panic

Behavioral therapy

Behavioral therapy• Theories of conditioningMethods• Desensitization• Implosion• Aversion• Biofeedback, relaxation