Psychological Therapies
Insight therapy is the type of treatment that focuses on enabling patients to comprehend on how events that occurred in the past influence their current views and behaviors towards events, things and people. It’s an effective approach of treating patients since it focuses on the root cause of the problem that is affecting their daily lives. This would involve defining the reason why the patient would be experiencing low self-esteem, depression, insecurity or anxiety. On the other hand, reality therapy uses the approach of helping the patient solve the present problems with no regard to the events that may have happened in the past. It’s based on the assumption that although we can’t control our feelings, we have the ability to control how we think and behave. A patient who undergoes through the insight therapy would benefit most since they would be able to address the cause of the problem without disregarding the past events.
Freudian dream analysis model views dreams as manifestation of wish fulfillments, unconscious desires and conflicts. He describes a dream to have both the manifest and the latent parts in which the dreamer remembers the manifest part and the latent part represents the symbolic meaning of the dream which is repressed. For the dream analysis one explains the manifest content to the therapist in which the therapist picks the specific symbols which they use to interpret the dream by exploring the repressed latent content.
Psychotherapy is the use psychological methods to help an individual change behavior patterns and deal with specific problems through personal interaction mostly with adult patients. It’s designed to help a patient deal with problematic behaviors, thoughts, compulsions and beliefs. An example of this is talk therapy. On the other hand, biomedical therapy refers to the use of medications to treat psychological disorders. Different medications are used to treat different disorders. An example of this is the psychotropic therapy.