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Article: Cognitive behavior therapy: learning techniques to change our negative perception of the environment.(Second Messenger)(Report)
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- Psychopharmacology Educational Updates (PsychEd Up)
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Psychoanalysis, also called psychodynamic therapy, is a therapeutic approach developed for the treatment of psychiatric conditions in the early 1900s. It involves a long treatment (generally several years) to uncover the past experiences that underlie a dysfunctional thought or behavior. This approach focuses on the origins of the disease rather than the cure.
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In the 1960s, a group of psychologists took a drastic new direction in the field of psychiatry, emphasizing a therapeutic action on behavior and immediate cognition over the study of past experiences. They developed behavior therapy based on the scientific observations that ...