Chapter 16: Therapy

An Epiphany. Aha! Eureka! connecting current thoughts/feelings/behavior to past events

disconnecting the nerve fibers of the frontal lobe

Tests, Diagnoses, and Treats mental illness using talk-therapy

A therapist never negatively judges their client; people are innately good and have free will

72-hour involuntary psych hold for a person threatening to harm self or others in FL

Exposing someone to what they fear in increasingly realistic steps

Freudian therapeutic tool used to find out unconscious motivations, fears, memories, etc

I was mad at my mom and now I'm mad at my therapist

Using more than one type of therapy at the same time

Prescribes medication to treat mental disorders

Behavioral therapy to treat phobias - face your fears!

talk therapy with normal people about their normal people problems

Moving patients from Asylums back into the community for treatment

Can't change the past; but can change thoughts and perceptions to something more healthy

Sending a powerful electrical current though the brain inducing a seizure; treats depression

Used to treat hallucinations & delusions

Uses principles of classical and operant conditioning to improve patients' ability to function

implanting a device to deliver small electrical signals in the brain