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13523375746eclectic approachan approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy.0
13523375747psychotherapytreatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.1
13523375748psychoanalysisSigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. 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.2
13523375749resistancein psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.3
13523375750interpretationin psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight.4
13523375751transferencein psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).5
13523375752psychodynamic therapytherapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight.6
13523375753insight therapya variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses.7
13523375754client-centered therapya 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. (humanistic approach)8
13523375755active listeningempathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy. (humanistic approach)9
13523375756unconditional positive regarda caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance (humanistic approach)10
13523375757behavior therapytherapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.11
13523375758counterconditioninga behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.12
13523375759exposure therapybehavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid.13
13523375760systematic desensitizationa type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.14
13523375761virtual reality exposure therapyAn anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.15
13523375762aversive conditioninga type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).16
13523375764cognitive therapytherapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.17
13523375765cognitive-behavioral therapya popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior).18
13523375766family therapytherapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.19
13523375767biomedical treatmentprescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system.20
13523375768psychopharmacologythe study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior21
13523375769antipsychotic drugsdrugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder22
13523375771antianxiety drugsdrugs used to control anxiety and agitation23
13523375772antidepressant drugsdrugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters24
13523375773eletroconvulsive therapy (ECT)a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient25
13523375774repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity26
13523375775psychosurgerysurgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior27
13523375776lobotomya now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain28
13523397196cognitive therapytherapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions29

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