Erikson's Psychotherapy

I believe that psychotherapy is a reciprocal process of engagement, learning and changing that happens in both the client and the therapist, Therefore, when the client comes from a radically different cultural background from our own, as clinicians we must familiarize ourselves and adjust to the nature and conditions of that culture. For a while, the most prominent focal point of psychoanalytic studies, literature and practices in the United States has been the “issues concerning the development of the sense of self and personal identity” and “the importance of the child’s early attachment to the mother and the emergence of the self as an independent identity” (Corsini, 2011, p. 26). Through my experience as a client, student and

Gestalt therapy is a therapeutic approach in psychology that helped foster the humanistic theories of the 1950s and 1960s and that was, in turn, influenced by them. In Gestalt philosophy, the patient is seen as having better insight into himself or herself than the therapist does. Thus, the therapist guides the person on a self-directed path to awareness and refrains from interpreting the patient’s behaviors. Awareness comprises recognition of one’s responsibility for choices, self-knowledge, and ability to solve problems.

Depression is a symptom of a clear reluctance, lack of will and ability of man to get himself. The will of life is the energy that helps throughout a lifetime, the power that drives everything and everyone. No motivation and no desire for anything engine. Person who is in a state of depression, as he lost his motivation and energy to function in daily life in general. Such a reluctance may be due to many different reasons a person's various levels. Depression is characterized by a number of common symptoms, feelings of sadness, or feeling down in the dumps. It can leave you feeling continuously, like having the joy of life ripped away from you. To understand the on goings in the mind of the depressed and to find the source of the issue to resolve what are the of depression is problematic. Depression is a growing issue, while

Psychodynamic Therapy assisted in discovering what childhood experiences and situations influenced Christina’s personality development. For instance, the client discussed how she grew up in a military family and was required to relocate every two years. The client stated how she felt like the “new kid” at each school she attended during her childhood and adolescent years. In regards to being labeled as the “new kid”, Christina created a “shield” to defend her from her classmates and keep her hidden. Based on being alone most of her childhood and being distant from others, Christina stated how she enjoys being independent and making her own rules. Furthermore, while her father was deployed, her mother was the parent playing the roles of the

Susanna would benefit most from a psychodynamic treatment approach, with a specific emphasis on clarification, confrontation, and interpretation/transference interpretation. As highlighted by McWilliams (1999), recurrent themes emerge within the therapy which constitute the client’s internal and external world. With this in mind, Susanna’s internal object relations would undoubtedly unfold in the relationship with the therapist. As Susanna evidences a lack of insight, it will be the therapist’s responsibility to clarify Susanna’s experiences for her. In this view, clarification refers to the reformulation of the patient’s verbalizations to convey a more coherent view of what is being communicated. The therapist may want to clarify what it was like in Susanna’s household growing up, and gather further information on Susanna’s romantic relationships. Clarifying sentiments might include “you stated that at times you felt loved by your mother, and hated at other times, but overall do you feel that your mother loves you?”

This technique also works well with Freud’s technique of psychodynamic therapy: Free Association. Free association will give you fragments of repressed memories in words. In the Psychoanalytic Therapy Applied to the Case of Stan, Corey notices patterns pertaining to Stan’s father. In the beginning of the seventh session, Corey addresses Stan that he shuts himself off. Stan is slow at times; he stops and thinks before he talks. When Corey performed Freud’s technique of psychodynamic therapy, Free Association on the word “father”, Stan paused with every single word describing his father. This helped Corey uncover some of the unresolved issues form his past that is effecting his present. Stan mentions in the video that his father is blind. He

Mr Foos introduced himself on the 27. and 29.07.2016 in diagnostic conversations at my doctor’s office.

Kevin is nine years old and he was born in America. His father, Qiang, took him to private tutorial center and helped him finish his homework under teacher’s guide because Qiang didn’t understand in English. At the beginning, Kevin was looking around ceaselessly while the teacher taught him. After his father strictly said, “pay attention to the teacher.” he stopped looking around. Later, his father left me to look at him and he went to the restaurant. When Kevin found his father disappeared, he stopped working on his homework and played with his pencil while other children kept doing their homework. Even though the teacher persuaded him to work on his homework, he was not listening to the teacher’s advice ,and he twitched his mouth. When Qiang came back and found Kevin wasn’t focus on his homework, he criticized Kevin in front of his classmates. Kevin continuous worked on his homework silently. Finally, he finished his homework and he left the tutorial center with his head down.

PTSD is an actual medical condition, thus it requires treatment to aid with the mental disease. Psychotherapy is the most advantageously treatment for kids with PTSD. There are different types of psychotherapy: cognitive therapy and exposure therapy. Cognitive therapy is a way to reduce the symptoms of PTSD. “Identifying false or unhelpful trauma-related thoughts, then evaluating the evidence for and against them so the patient learns to consider whether these problematic thoughts are the result of cognitive bias or error and develop more realistic and/or useful thoughts” (Vinci 2015). The therapist will help you organize your thoughts on the trauma and figure out why you feel the way you do. After a trauma, the patient usually has bias thoughts

Understand, interpret, direct. This statement is an oversimplification of sorts, but defines the essence of Adlerian psychotherapy. From this minimal overview of Adlerian theory, we can begin to elaborate and explore the intricacies of individual psychology. Adlerians are concerned with understanding the unique and private beliefs and strategies of the individual (private logic and mistaken notions) that we create in childhood, and which serve as a reference for attitudes, private views of self, others and the world, and behavior (lifestyle). Therapeutic work with clients involves short-term and intensive work to increase social interest, to encourage a greater sense of responsibility for behavior, and to support behavioral change.

In order for me to refer my boyfriend for this particular therapy, he would have to have anxiety or conduct disorders.

The reality therapy is a more flexible psychoanalysis procedure that has been used extensively by psychiatrists. This form of treatment has been founded mainly on three pillars that are realism, problem-solving and responsibility as opposed to the conventional forms that mainly dwelled on evaluating mental disorders. Reality therapy seeks to provide solutions for human social conditions otherwise referred to as mental illness. Stan has been depicted as a victim who has lost their hope in life, and this is due to the numerous mistakes and failures that have pictured in his earlier life. When the psychologist uses this form of therapy to assist Stan, they are focused on wiping off the past thoughts of remorse so that Stan would be able to see

Aaron Beck developed the cognitive therapy concept in the 1960s. Beck was very ill as a child and perceive his mother to be depressed and unpredictable due to losing two children in their infancy due to illness. Beck graduated from Brown University and Yale Medical School. According to Beck’s daughter Judith, cognitive therapy is based on the ideas of the stoic philosophers in Greece and Rome (Seligman et al, 2014, p. 294) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy was founded by Donald Meichenbaum, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. While he was working on his dissertation for his doctoral degree, he noticed that people with schizophrenia who were taught healthy self-talk fared better in other measures than those with schizophrenia who were not talk about healthy self talk.

I am going to be telling you about the logotherapy. I will be telling you about the history of logotherapy and the man behind it Victor E. Frankl, and how it works. The man behind the therapy Victor E. Frankl . Viktor E. Frankl was born in Vienna, Austria on March 26, 1905 and Frankl grew up in Vienna, the birthplace of modern psychiatry and home of the renowned psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. A brilliant student, Frankl was involved in Socialist youth organizations and became interested in psychiatry. At age 16 he began writing to Freud, and on one occasion sent him a short paper, which was published three years later, Frankl earned a medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1930 and was put in charge of a Vienna hospital ward for the treatment of females who had attempted suicide. When Germany seized control of Austria eight years later, the Nazis made Frankl head of the Rothschild Hospital. On returning to Vienna after Germany’s defeat in 1945, Frankl, who had secretly been keeping a record of his observations in the camps on scraps of paper, published a book in German setting out his ideas on Logotherapy. This was translated into English in 1959, and in a revised and enlarged edition appeared as The Doctor and the Soul: An Introduction to Logotherapy in 1963. In 1946 Frankl became executive director of the Viennese neurological health center and kept this position until 1971.( About Logotherapy, n.d.). What is Logotherapy? Viktor Frankl’s

With this revealing evidence I now have to consider the relationship between her and her parents and how they may be viewed under her Jewish religion. Being in a heterosexual relationship as well as being of a different religion I know I need to be mindful to the way that I handle the session. So to move through the counseling session not that we have identified one of Taylors issues we can build from there. She can with in herself learn to find solutions to deal with how she communicates with her family. Once she finds her solution then she may be able to when ready disclose the relationship that she developed some time ago. Once these in house issues are resolved then I believe she can find ways to interact with others and build new relationships. I do feel that talking with her parents will help in reducing the anxiety she feel when communicating. Once that issue is decreased then her depression should also decrease and allow other relationships to