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Apr 20, 2017 · Psychotherapy and those who practise it have a stake in contemporary societies, in both the public and private spheres. But how did these interventions develop? What were their intellectual origins, and what were the institutional and cultural forces that shaped them?
- Sarah Marks
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May 25, 2023 · Psychoanalysis and electroconvulsive therapy came into their own in the early twentieth century; in the years following the Second World War, lithium, antidepressant, antipsychotic, and ...
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It’s really useful to see everything in context. In this piece I want to help contextualize some of the main models for human emotional help, to look at where these ideas came from, and to evaluate where we seem to be at now. It will be far from complete, but hopefully it will be sweeping enough to cover all the main aspects so you can see where yo...
Psychotherapy, the ‘talking cure’, is not new. For as long as human beings have eased troubled minds through verbal communication, or even non-verbal soothings, a kindof psychotherapy has existed. Our pre-language hominid ancestors were just as social as we are – even in the absence of Facebook! For thousands of years before written language, peopl...
Psychotherapy and sophisticated psychological understanding are far from exclusively Western domains. Western orientalists have noted that Sufi literature is full of evidence of profound psychological insight and sophisticated psychotherapeutic procedures. Historical Sufis such as Jalaludin Rumi of Afghanistan and El Ghazali of Persia display psych...
These days, the terms ‘counselling’ and ‘psychotherapy’ are often used as if they are different things. But of course both psychotherapy and counselling simply mean helping someone using psychological means. Sure, there may be different emphasis in, say, solution-focused counselling versus person-centred counselling. But the objectives are similar:...
Writers such as Frank Tallis3 and Robert Ornstein4 have pointed out that psychological ideology has long tried to vie for scientific legitimacy with other ‘harder sciences’, even to the point of borrowing metaphors from impressive technologicalinnovation. In the early years this may have been done (consciously or otherwise) to help cement psycholog...
During the 18th and 19th centuries the technology of hydraulics really steamed ahead. James Wattand other inventors had developed the steam engine, and rail travel was transforming the world. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the metaphor for the mind, too, had become to a large extent hydraulic. People talked, and still talk, of ‘running ...
When we use the metaphor of problems being ‘deep rooted’ or ‘deep seated’, we’re really talking about any explanation of behaviour that exists at the level of the unconscious. Freudian and Jungian analysis are classic examples of ideologies that assumed that much or even all human behaviour could be explained at a ‘deeper’ level. People sometimes u...
After hydraulics came electricity, which was, by the early 20th century, becoming a big factor in industrialized society. People talked of ‘recharging your batteries’, ‘being run down’ and ‘feeling flat’. And they still do. Psychiatrists at the Tavistock clinic in London routinely electrocuted British survivors of World War I trench warfare in an a...
After World War II came the computer age. Computers had proved their worth during wartime as code-breaking devices, and a new metaphor for the human mind was borne. We now talk of ‘processing information’, ‘retrieving memory’, and ‘crashing’. The brain came to be seen as ‘like a computer’, or perhaps it was the other way around: people thought comp...
The so-called ‘Father of Western Psychotherapy’ was Viennese physician Franz Mesmer.8 In the 18th century he pioneered hypnotherapyas a treatment for psychosomatic problems and other disorders of the mind. His technique become known as ‘mesmerism’, or sometimes ‘animal magnetism’. The term hypnosis was not yet used. While Mesmer’s treatments and te...
May 14, 2021 · Occupational therapy (OT) originated alongside the mental health movement in the early 1900s. Learn how OT plays a role in mental health treatment today.
Jul 8, 2024 · How did psychology originate? When did it begin? Who were the people responsible for establishing psychology as a separate science?
Nov 1, 2012 · Learn how to choose a psychologist, how therapy works, how long it lasts and what should and shouldn’t happen during psychotherapy.
Apr 24, 2023 · When did the medical world start to understand anxiety disorders? Learn about the diagnosis and treatment of anxiety from ancient to modern times. Doctors and therapists know a lot about anxiety.
