Psychotherapy

1st stage

STAGES:

confession of a pathogenic secret.

2nd stage

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involves interpretation, explanation, and elucidation

3rd stage

STAGES:

approach adopted by Adler

3rd stage

STAGES:

includes the education of patients as social beings

4th stage

STAGES:

transformation

confession of a pathogenic secret

cathartic method practiced by Josef Breuer and his patient Anna O

confession of a pathogenic secret

For patients who merely have a need to share their secrets, catharsis is effective

interpretation, explanation, and elucidation

used by Freud, gives the patients insight into the causes of their neuroses, but may still leave them incapable of solving social problems

education of patients as social beings

approach often leaves patients merely socially well adjusted

transformation

therapist must first be transformed into a healthy human being, preferably by undergoing psychotherapy

transformation

employed with patients who are in the second half of life and who are concerned with realization of the inner self, with moral and religious problems, and with finding a unifying philosophy of life