Sometimes, as in analytical psychotherapy or psychoanalysis, attention is focused on the role of unconscious processes in inner conflicts; treatment attempts to resolve these conflicts by understanding the unconscious forces involved.
Other approaches to psychotherapy are increasingly being used by psychiatrists.
For emotionally disturbed persons, relaxation training techniques are useful primarily as an adjunct to psychotherapy or drug therapy and can be helpful in reducing tension and anxiety.
Bernard Malamud, A New Life Psychoanalysis is the root from which the large family of different theories of psychotherapy and counseling has grown.
Many of the approaches to psychotherapy we have already looked at are used in groups.
Behavioral psychotherapy seems to have been developed to respond especially to present needs.
Usually, when therapies are combined, one is a formal psychotherapy and the other is an adjunctive therapy--that is, a therapy that most often is not relied on exclusively.
If he were to use psychotherapy consciously and were to receive a professional fee for it he would feel that he was being paid for a value that the patient had not received.
Conscious and directpsychotherapy is left by the average practitioner to New Thoughters, Christian Scientists, quacks, and charlatans.
Even he did not realize that every psychotherapy is also a physical therapy.
What you said is true," he remarked; "we all use psychotherapy but we are a little ashamed of it; and it is better not to talk about it.
He uses much psychotherapy himself but it is nearly always applied unconsciously and indirectly through some form of physical or chemical therapy that he believes will cure.
The other school creates a complete antithesis between mind and body and makes psychotherapy a kind of triumph of the mind over the body.
The one school nowadays lives from the contrast between consciousness and subconsciousness and makes all psychotherapy work with and through and in the subconscious.
Incomparably small, on the other hand, is the aid which psychotherapy can offer in cases of real destructions in the brain, as in the case of tumors, hemorrhage, paresis or the degeneration by senility.
Psychotherapy has suffered too much from the belief that the removal of mental symptoms is a cure of disease.
They usually demand more insight than specific forms of psychotherapy like hypnotic suggestions.
The basis of psychotherapy is therefore an analytic psychology which conceives the inner experience as a combination of psychical elements.
Psychotherapy has suffered too much from the usual confusion of standpoints.
But in addition to all this, we have the great help which psychotherapy may bring indirectly in the treatment of physical diseases.
By these two fundamental facts of scientific psychology, every possible psychotherapy gets from the start its clear middle way between two extreme views which are popular today.
A good conscience, a congenial home, and a serious purpose are after all the safest conditions for a healthy mind, and the community works in preventive psychotherapy wherever it facilitates the securing of these three factors.
Thus, and thus only, is psychotherapy to be applied to tic.
In the words of Brissaud, psychotherapy is an ensemble of agencies calculated to demonstrate to the patient where his will is at fault, and how to exercise to the best advantage what of it is left.
I very much doubt whether I shall ever have the necessary perseverance to master all my tics, and I am too prone to imagine fresh ones; yet the thought no longer alarms me.
Obsessions and manias similarly are indications of mental deterioration, yet the fact conveys very scanty information as to their real nature.
The psychotherapy of the neuroses is based on this difference.
It is the foreconscious that accomplishes this work; and the only course to be pursued by psychotherapy is the subjugate the Unc, to the domination of the Forec.
It is just here that the office of psychotherapy begins, its task being to bring about adjustment and forgetfulness for the unconscious processes.
So far as psychotherapy goes, Babinski wants to obtain a definite improvement, if not a cure, on the first application of treatment.
The physician sees the patient twice a day and carries on psychotherapy and motor reëducation, as well as special treatments.
Re treatment of war psychoneuroses, Roussy and Lhermitte recommend rational and persuasive psychotherapy after the manner of Dejerine, Dubois, Babinski, and others.
Psychotherapy was applied, the patient was requested to walk, and the movements made in walking required such an intense respiration that the diaphragm was forced to function, whereupon the “big belly” disappeared.
Moreover, the good effects of psychotherapy confirmed the hypothesis.
Arinstein from Russian experience gives preference to Dubois’ psychotherapy over hypnosis and psychoanalysis.
Weichardt has used the continuous bath as a form of psychotherapy and permits the symptoms of psychoneurosis to subside therein.
Re tics, the tonic or postural tic is, according to Roussy and Lhermitte, much less common than clonic or spasmodic movements, which are Shell-shock phenomena like tremors and usually yield to psychotherapy if treated early.
Treatment with psychotherapy met with prompt results; within a few days, the patient learned to move his legs and to walk with support, though making enormous efforts which threw the pulse up to about 160 and made the face congested.
By way of treatment, this case of hysterotraumatism was given isolation and psychotherapy for two months without effect.
The similarity between the procedure of Gradiva and the analytic method of psychotherapy is, however, not limited to these two points, making the repressed conscious, and the concurrence of explanation and cure.
I don't need to know a devil of a lot about psychotherapy to know that the process you've been describing is as far beyond the limits of psychotherapy as the Hiroshima bomb was beyond the limits of chemistry.
But you're right--it is as impossible to produce the effect by psychotherapy as it is to produce an atomic explosion by a chemical reaction.
Because I know what psychotherapy can and can't do.
By the way, am I wrong in assuming that Nestor will not get your psychotherapy treatment?
And I know that psychotherapy can not do the sort of thing we've been discussing.
If this is not sufficient, go to a specialist trained in psychotherapy and let him help you uncover those trouble-making parts of your personality which you cannot find for yourself.
For this large and neglected class of people psychotherapy has a stimulating message, and for them many of the following pages have been written.
Others, of studious habits and inquiring minds, are encouraged to browse at will in a library of psychotherapy and to learn all that they can from the best authorities.
In substituting healthful complexes for unhealthful ones, psychotherapy not only changes ideas and emotions, but alters the feelings of pleasure or pain that are bound up with the ideas.
Autosuggestion is a powerful force, but real psychotherapy is based not on the mechanical repetition of any set of words, but on a knowledge of the truth.
Because this is true, there has grown up a kind of psychotherapy which is known as simple explanation, or persuasion.
It has remained for modern psychotherapy to strike the balance--to treat the whole man.
The final aim of psychotherapy is the happy adjustment of the individual to the demands of society and the establishment of useful outlets for his energy.
Williams writes: "The essence of psychotherapy and education is to associate useful activities with agreeable feeling-tones and to dissociate from injurious acts the agreeable feeling-tones that may have been acquired.
This is one of the most important benefits that psychotherapy can confer on many of the so-called neurasthenics.
It is this discipline that is needed in psychotherapy at the present time and the physician must endeavor to encourage it by every means in his power.
Still more strikingly the role of psychotherapy is seen in the many remedies that were recommended at various times for such self-limited diseases as erysipelas, ordinary coughs and colds, pneumonia and typhoid fever.
What was accomplished by indirect psychotherapy in the past can now be done much better by direct mental suggestion, when at the same time various remedial measures in other therapeutic departments are employed as auxiliaries.
If psychotherapy can help in the treatment of conditions that are so often intractable, it must surely not be neglected in other cases.
In brief, the applications of the general principles of psychotherapy {193} include all means, apart from the physical, of influencing patients.
The times when special attention has been paid to psychotherapy have certain special characteristics.
This form of psychotherapy places great demands on the physician's patience and understanding.
Does it render other forms ofpsychotherapy superfluous?
Several years of psychotherapy which released his drive for adventure in space.
Conflict in her decision as to whether she should go into the private practice of psychotherapy or specialize in space psychology.
Unfortunately, the latent personalities and their share of knowledge had been submerged beyond recovery by the rigorous psychotherapy the accident victim had undergone after surgery.
And the psychotherapy isn't to help you, it's to make sure you won't protest over what they've done.
They told me you'd have to have psychotherapy and I'd have to have orientation before I could see you.
In short, as Barker aptly puts it, "Every psychotherapy is also a physical therapy.
Psychotherapy and narcotics are, and ever have been, the sheet-anchors of the charlatan and the miracle-worker.
Heretofore these last have held the field of psychotherapylargely without competition.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychotherapy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: counseling; hypnosis; hypnotism; medication; medicine; psychotherapy; therapy; treatment
