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Century PsychotherapiesAuthors: Frank Du
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Key Points and Terms
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Evolution of the Science and Profession of Psychology
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Early attempts to address mental disorders include:
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► Pre-Christian, temple- h
like asklepeia and other retreat centers, which use
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philosophical lectures, to assuage if not remedy ps
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► Hellenist physicians understood that the brain was n
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ot only the seat of knowledge and learning but also th
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e source of depression, delirium, and madness.
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► Hippocrates insisted that his students address illnesses by natural means.
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Psychotherapy in its present guise did not clearly emerge un
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til the 18th century. Below are some key players:
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► Scientific study of the unconscious attributed to reno
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wned polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:
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▪ Investigated subliminal perceptions h h
▪ Coined the term “dynamic”
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► Johann Friedrich Herbart:
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▪ Attempted to apply mathematics to dynamics
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▪ Suggested ideas struggle with one another to access consciousness
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► Franz Anton Mesmer and his disciple the Marquis de
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Puysegur are influential in current understanding of:
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▪ hypnotherapy
▪ rapport between therapist and patient
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▪ influence of the unconscious h h h
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▪ hypnotic somnambulism h
▪ selective function of unconscious memory
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▪ role of patient confidence
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▪ common factors across effective treatments
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► Arthur Schopenhauer
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▪ Work strongly influenced Freud
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► Gustav T. Fechner
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▪ Made distinction between waking and sleeping states
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▪ Attempted to measure the intensity of psychic stimulation
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► Herman von Helmholtzh h
▪ Discovered the phenomenon of unconscious inference
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► Emil Kraepelin
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▪ Attention to classifying diseases
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► Carl Gustav Carus
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▪ Developed one of the most sophisticated sch
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emas the unconscious that exist, describing
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several levels to the unconscious
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▪ Felt individuals were communicating at cons
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cious and unconscious levels with each other i
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n paravocal, nonverbal, organic, and affectiv
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► Carus Schopenhauer
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▪ Principal argument was that we are driven
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► Friedrich Nietzsche
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▪ Viewed that humans lie to themselves more than they do to each other
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► Moritz Benedikt
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▪ Developed concept of seeking out and clini
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cally purging “pathogenic secrets”
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The Impact of Biological Science on Psychotherapy
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Every encounter with our environment causes a change wit
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