Discuss why people do or do not seek psychotherapy. Describe the various types of mental health professionals involved in the provision of therapy. Clinical psychologists and counseling psychologists specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems. Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the treatment of psychological disorders. Psychiatric social workers and psychiatric nurses often work as part of a treatment team with a psychologist or psychiatrist.
Counselors provide therapeutic services to schools, colleges, and human service agencies.
Explain the logic of psychoanalysis and describe the techniques used to probe the unconscious. Psychoanalysis is an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association, dream analysis, and transference. Freud theorized that people depend on defense mechanisms to avoid confronting conflicts, which remain hidden in the depths of the unconscious. Free Association . Dream Analysis .