Insight+Therapies

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Definition:
Approaches to psychotherapy based on the notion that psychological well-being depends on self-understanding. Gen Psych, Chapter 13, Pg. 410

Examples:
__**Humanistic therapies**__**-** psychotherapies that assume that people have the ability and freedom to lead rational lives and make rational choices.
 * __Psychodynamic therapies__-** psychotherapies that attempt to uncover repressed childhood experiences that are thought to explain a patient's current difficulties.
 * __Gestalt therapies__-** a therapy that was originated by Fritz Perls and that emphasizes the importance of clients' fully experiencing, in the present moment, their feelings, thoughts, and actions and then taking responsibility for them.media type="youtube" key="tSU1UiqBiiY" height="251" width="336" align="right"

Analogies:
The use of this form of psychotherapy gives the patient **insight** into their own lives to better understand themselves and progress further.

Mnemonics:
Bill came to see his psychodynamic psychologist today and learned that deep **inside** himself he had to uncover the unpleasant memories from childhood he had hidden away.

In the News:
Provides an overview and basic concepts of the methods and deductions used in the Gestalt method if therapy. [] Gives an introduction upon how to overcome your fears and anxiety by understand oneself to your full potential. [] media type="youtube" key="4-B2MVr30Yw" height="315" width="420"