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Psychology was begun by Wundt (mainly experimental psychology)
1879
Areas of psychology met with success
Child Development, Sensation and Perception, Social Psychology
A branch of psychology that addresses how to help people with problems
Psychotherapy
The number of theories that different psychotherapists hold
250
Psychotherapy fails to be…
Effective
Discovered that two out of three “neurotics” will improve within 2 years whether they seek psychotherapy or not.
Eysenck Study
the one factor judged in being an “effective” counselor
Personal Qualities
Has psychotherapy proved to be successful?
no
Psychotherapy has failed to be:
Effective and failed to be a science
Psychotherapy is not based upon _________ observable data but on one’s world view.
Objective
The moral/ethical/religious issues psychotherapy deals with:
1) The Nature of Man, 2) The definition of normal, 3) What type of person is abnormal, 4) How does a person change, 5) The goal of change
Many if not most Christian psychotherapists have been trained in _________ institutions.
secular
practicing two religions
syncretism
Psychotherapy is a ________ ___________.
scientific failure.
Psychotherapy is not a __________.
science
Psychotherapy is a _______ - to accept it is a matter of faith.
religion
These 250 theories are divided into 3 major views:
psychodynamic, the behavioral, humanistic
Originator of psychoanalytic
Freud
The context of psychoanalytic
The subjective observation of troubled people by an atheistic troubled person
Anthropology of psychoanalytic
selfish animals
Motivation of psychoanalitics
psychic determinism- satisfying subconscious needs
Psychoanalytics “problem”
subconscious conflict
The psychoanalytic’s counselee
a sick patient (they have an “illness”)
The psychoanalytic as a counselor
The expert doctor