Chapter 15: Therapy

The Psychological Therapies

What Is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalytic treatment demonstrates how these unconscious factors affect current relationships and patterns of behavior, traces them back to their historical origins, shows how they have changed and developed over time, and helps the individual to deal better with the realities of adult life.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Treatment
Systematic desensitization, thought stopping, flooding, and saturation are described as treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder. These behavior therapies have a higher success rate than other methods used in the past.

AABT
AABT is a not-for-profit organization of over 4,500 mental health professionals and students who utilize and/or are interested in empirically based behavior therapy or cognitive behavior therapy.

Client-Centered Therapy
This is a short description of Client-Centered Therapy, followed by links to resources on the subject.

The Biomedical Therapies

Prozac
Prozac is the most frequently prescribed medication for the treatment of depression in the world. Here is a site that will answer all your questions about the drug.

Drug Treatment for People with Mood Disorders
Discussions of issues in psychopharmacology.

Electroconvulsive Therapy - E.C.T.
Discussions of issues in electroconvulsive therapy. This site provides links to information about ECT for both the scientist and the layman, including what it is and why it is used.

Shocked! at ect.org
This is a website created by a former ECT patient. It contains information about ECT both pro and con but it has a decidedly con leaning.