Psychotherapy

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Definition:
Any type of approach that uses psychological rather than biological means to treat psychological disorders. Gen Psych, Chapter 13, Pg. 410

Analogies:
Metaphors for Life and Mind

Complex phenomena can be elusive, and we tend to describe them in terms of other phenomena that are a bit more familiar. One of the more obvious targets is the immensity of complexity we call life. Ursula LeGuin, (1985: 483-485), describes some particularly generative metaphors in speaking about life, mind, philosophy, theology, and so forth: * the war--struggle, triumph, courage, mind as warrior, language as control, winlose * the lord, hierarchy, mind as control, law, place, responsibility * animal, life, organic, indivisible wholeness, kinship, mind as animal, discovery, language as relationship * the machine, work, clockmaker, use, function, medicine as repair, mind as machine, information, communication language, exploitation, progress * the dance, music, harmony, creation/destruction, participation, cooperation, medicine as art, mind as dance, rhythm, language as connection, horizontal link * the house, stability, division within unity, person as householder, selfhood; medicine as protection, mind as belonging, language as self-omestication, inside/outside * the way, change, mystery, balance in movement, imitation of animal, water, etc. inaction, receptivity, medicine as balance, mind as spontenatity, language as inadequate, unity, return

Mnemonics:
P articular S alesmen Y odel C loudy H airy O pportunities T hen H opeful E ggshells R aise A pparent P hallic Y olks

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