Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Historical Overview

Brief Historical Overview

Psychotherapy is apparent when the primitive man, after learning the 30 most frequent words ("we", "owl", "oh", etc..), Came to more complicated ("go", "both worse, "" it sucks "). At that time, then surely people knew how to calm down, take comfort, to take pity on each other. Whoever has done more often than others became the first psychotherapist.



AD, the early history of psychotherapy is probably the Viennese doctor Franz Anton Messmer, who solemnly believed cure "magnetism", when in truth he was using hypnosis, suggestion, bioenergy, therapy show and the induction group.

In the twentieth century, psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy have their tracks in Europe and the United States began to change dramatically. Various schools and trends are created. It was common that psychologists do not understand them, they use differing terminology and have enough knowledge of fuzzy ideas belonging to other trends.

A list, even synthetic, different types of psychotherapy would be impossible to enumerate in such a small chapter. However, his close relationship with psychology justified to mention the four types of designs on which psychologists deal with today's psychological problems of individuals.

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