Psychological therapy

CSIP, Choice and Access Programme, Commissioning a Brighter Future Improving Access to Psychological Therapies , edited by Department of Health Crown, 2007a... 

The core problem with the antipsychiatry approach is its practical limitations. How exactly does it assist the distressed individual who is suffering from the delusion that they have an atomic bomb inside their body It will be shown later that psychotherapy without drug treatment is largely ineffective (as Jung and Fried both concluded), whereas psychological therapy combined with active drug treatment is the most effective therapeutic approach. 

Drug plus psychological therapy the optimal therapeutic package... 

Compare the use of pharmacotherapy alone, psychological therapy alone, and both therapies together, in the treatment of either schizophrenia or major depression. 

Woods RT (1996). Psychological therapies in dementia. In RT Woods, M Grundman, P Woodbury, J Growdon, CW Cotman and E Pfeiffer (eds), Handbook of the Clinical Psychology of Ageing. John Wiley Sons, Chichester, UK. 

It wasn t until I began studying other forms of psychology, therapy, and personality tests, that I discovered some scientific evidence that explains what I had been witnessing in myself and others. The... 

Bond Al, Wingrove 1, Valerie CH, Lader MH. Treatment of generalised anxiety disorder with a short course of psychological therapy, combined with buspirone or placebo. 1 Affect Disord 2002 72 267-271. 

D.F. (edsj Evaluation of Psychological Therapies. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1976, pp. 285-293. 

Spitzer, R.L. Discussion of paper by Weissman et al. In Spitzer, R.L., Klein, D.F. (eds) Evaluation of Psychological Therapies. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1976, p. 178. 

In pharmacological treatment, because of the considerations discussed above there is often the conclusion that substitute prescribing produces the best results in opiate addicts with the added condition of personality disorder, particularly of the antisocial or borderline type. There should also be awareness of treatments which, although not specific for personality disorder, have some demonstrated utility in the condition alongside psychological therapies, including serotonergic antidepressants and low-dose antipsychotics (Markovitz 2004). 

This syndrome often develops in patients in their twenties, and some, with the more severe form, rarely leave home for periods of many years, or until they are effectively treated by medication, cognitive behavior therapy, or other behavior/psychological therapies. Family studies of panic disorder (PD) find an increased occurrence of attacks in first-degree relatives (2). 

Psychotherapy, deconditioning therapy, and psychedelic therapy are examples of purely psychological therapy, while sugar-free diets for relative hypoglycemia, mega vitamin B3, megascorbic acid, and adrenocortical extracts (or extracts of licorice) are examples of pure chemotherapies. 

Commencing a two year study, Harvard professor Timothy Leary attempts to reform criminals at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute. The inmates were given doses of psilocybin and psychological therapy. Ultimately, the psilocybin-subjected inmates... 

For a decade after its isolation, psilocybin, mainly in the form of pills, was readily available in the United States as a pharmacological drug. It was prescribed for psychological therapy. In 1968, psilocybin was made illegal, as few positive conclusions could be drawn about its benefits. Also, it had a high incidence of abuse. Psilocybin powder is usually swallowed, injected intravenously, or sniffed. Due to its high potency, it carries a high risk of overdose. Psilocybin powder or pills are expensive and difficult to produce and therefore difficult to obtain on the street. Studies indicate that when psilocybin is sold on the street, it is usually LSD, PCP (phencyclidine), or both. 

Read, J., 8c Ross, C. (2003). Reasons why people diagnosed must be offered psychological therapies. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry, 31, 246-268. 

A combination of medication and psychological therapy is the treatment of choice for panic disorder, as demonstrated by the following ... 

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