Methods Of Therapy

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ailments. When we think of therapy after an accident of some sort such as an automobile collision, we generally tend to term this physical therapy. Following a similar thought process then, would lead us to believe that there is a term for mental therapy, and there is, Psychotherapy. The text book defines psychotherapy as "a systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that brings psychological principles to bear on influencing the client's thoughts, feelings or behavior to help that client overcome abnormal behavior or adjust to problems in living". With this definition in mind, we are now in a position to answer the first question posed in the introduction, which asks how psychotherapy and other interactions differ and how they are similar. Well first of all, what I meant by "other interactions"? Some of these are Asylums, Mental Hospitals and Community Mental Health Centers. Asylums began hundreds of years ago in medieval Europe. Originating in monasteries, ...

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just as mental prisons, but as places where treatments were offered. There were still many problems however. Unlike psychotherapy where there is actual communication between the therapist and the client, patients would have been very lucky to have received such one-on-one treatment. The hospitals were overcrowded and it was not uncommon for there to be one doctor or psychiatrist to be responsible for a two or three hundred people (Ibid.). Although they were better than the asylums of old, they were still a far cry from today's forms of psychotherapy.
The final form of interaction which I shall mention began in the 1960's and was called the Community Mental Health Movement. The basic ...

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