Psychological and Biological Treatments

As a follow up of "Psychological Disorders" covered in Chapter 15, Chapter 16 discusses the many outlets in which one who has such a disorder can seek help. Initiating treatments requires that patients be psychoanalyzed. According to Sigmund Freud, there are six steps/stages a patient must experience during treatment. These approaches are: free association, interpretation, dream analysis, resistance, transference, and working through. From skimming, it is apparent that there are many categories of treatment that can be further broken down. Broad classifications include humanistic therapies, group therapies, family therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapies. I'm certainly interested in learning more about some of the processes these therapies require, such as desensitizing and virtual therapies. Aside from the types of treatment, the chapter discusses the effectiveness of psychotherapy and how people with certain characteristics respond to specific treatments.