Clinical psychology Chapter 1: Introduction

Interventions: Beginnings

Treatment of hysteria >>> Charcot (Hypnosis)

Treatment of a young patient “Anna O” - Breuer

Roots of psychoanalysis – Freud

Interventions: advent of the modern era

Treatment Reform – Beers >>> A mind that found itself >>> launching the mental hygiene movement.

First psychological clinic >>> Witmer

Interventions: Between the Wars (1920-1939)

Medical profession claimed exclusive rights to psychoanalytic therapy: despite Freud’s protestations

Children’s guidance clinics >>> Clinics devoted to the evalua- tion and treatment of children’s intellectual and behavioral difficulties.

Play therapy (Anna Freud, 1928):

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  Derived from traditional Freudian principles
  
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  Using expressive play to release anxiety/hostility