Private psychiatric practice
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Psychotherapy
Dialogue that takes part between a medical doctor and a patient always contains certain elements of support. Exactly this is why it represents one of the forms of psychotherapeutic intervention. This is the reason why verbal inputs of a psychiatrist have always had a therapeutic effect. Noting this kind of intervention whose content depends solely on traits of a psychiatrist’s personality (capacity for empathy, intuition etc.), while he does not possess education in a certain field of psychotherapeutic technique, it is necessary to emphasize that this form of intervention, although lacking scientific structure, does represent psychotherapeutic maneuvre in a rather wide sense.
Back in 1972. English and English (1972) in “A Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychological and Psychoanalytic Terms” noted the following: „Psychotherapy: Use of every psychological technique while treating mental disorder or maladjustment. This term is very general. It includes ‘healing with faith’, suggestion, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, providing rest, persuasion, counseling, advices that should help overcome fears, psychodrama, etc... This term does not speak of severity of the disorder (there may be psychotherapy for psychosis and for thumb sucking), length or intensity of treatment process, or the theoretical orientation of the therapist. However, term should be reserved for the treatment conducted by professionally educated person – that is clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychiatric social worker.'
E. Klajn and the coauthors of „Psychological medicine“ published in Croatia in 1999. define psychotherapy as „psychological method of treatment in which, by development of the contact between therapist and patient, a specific relation is created, which aids in revealing and changing certain patient’s traits, as well as revealing and loss of the symptoms. Central curable factor is transference, that is shift of patient’s emotions onto the therapist and analysis of that relation.“
History of psychotherapy
Analytical (psychodynamic) psychotherapies
Non-analytical psychotherapies
Method of active imagination developed by Phyllis Krystal
Back in 1972. English and English (1972) in “A Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychological and Psychoanalytic Terms” noted the following: „Psychotherapy: Use of every psychological technique while treating mental disorder or maladjustment. This term is very general. It includes ‘healing with faith’, suggestion, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, providing rest, persuasion, counseling, advices that should help overcome fears, psychodrama, etc... This term does not speak of severity of the disorder (there may be psychotherapy for psychosis and for thumb sucking), length or intensity of treatment process, or the theoretical orientation of the therapist. However, term should be reserved for the treatment conducted by professionally educated person – that is clinical psychologist, psychiatrist, or psychiatric social worker.'
E. Klajn and the coauthors of „Psychological medicine“ published in Croatia in 1999. define psychotherapy as „psychological method of treatment in which, by development of the contact between therapist and patient, a specific relation is created, which aids in revealing and changing certain patient’s traits, as well as revealing and loss of the symptoms. Central curable factor is transference, that is shift of patient’s emotions onto the therapist and analysis of that relation.“
History of psychotherapy
Analytical (psychodynamic) psychotherapies
Non-analytical psychotherapies
Method of active imagination developed by Phyllis Krystal