Types of Therapy & Researchers

Sigmund Freud

believed in psychoanalytic/dynamic therapy; involves accessing and treating underlying trauma, conflict as the root cause of a disorder

dream analysis

looking at imagery/content of dreams to understand fears

analyzing transference

examining what/how the person projects feelings

analyzing resistance

examining what the person resists and why

freely association

freely reporting thought, feelings, and images to gain clues into the unconscious mind

Carl Rogers

humanist therapy; believed in client-centered therapy (creating a comfortable environment that shows empathy and unconditional positive regard toward the client)

Mary Cover Jones

exposing therapy; believed in flooding the brain and forcing fear confrontation until extinguished; used behavioral therapy method

behavioral therapy method

focusing attention into unlearning maladaptive behaviors and replacing them with ones that are helathy

systematic desensitization therapy

designed by Joseph Wolpe, attempts to counter anxiety in phobias through purposeful exposure of small then stronger and stronger anxiety producing stimuli

Positive & Negative Reinforcement

B.F Skinner; helps clients learn/unlearn voluntary behaviors by utilizing positive/negative reinforcement; utilizes token economies as a reward

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

uses rational emotive therapy (RET): confronting irrational thoughts and guides patient to see and understand it to live a more functional life

Cognitive Triad

Aaron Beck; design cognitive model to access cognitive distortions and severity thru Beck’s Cognitive Triad: platform for therapists to help patients recognize thoughts and reject them and replace them with functional thoughts

insight therapy

helping afflicted person understand causes and nature of disorder (ex. CBT)

group therapy

6-12 people discuss common experiences together with therapist

family/marriage/couples

strive to bring families together under facilitation of therapist to identify and change maladaptive behaviors