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This lesson dives into the major types of psychological and biomedical treatments covered in Section 16.2 of OpenStax Psychology 2e. From Freud's psychoanalysis and play therapy to behavior therapy, CBT, humanistic therapy, and biomedical interventions like SSRIs and ECT, the video walks through how each approach works — and why. Along the way, vivid examples (a child's bedwetting alarm, Peter's rabbit phobia, Jayden's elevator fear, and the ABC model) make the core concepts concrete and memorable. In this video: • Psychoanalysis: how Freud used free association, resistance, and transference to excavate unconscious childhood conflicts • Play therapy: how children process trauma through sand trays and figurines instead of talk therapy • Behavior therapy: classical conditioning applied to real problems, illustrated by Emmy's bedwetting alarm and Mary Cover Jones's cure of Peter's rabbit phobia • Systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning: Jayden's elevator hierarchy and Antabuse's conditioned aversion to alcohol • Cognitive therapy and the ABC model: how Jon and Joe's identical rejection leads to opposite emotional outcomes based on belief • Cognitive distortions explained: overgeneralization, all-or-nothing thinking, and jumping to conclusions • Biomedical therapies: how SSRIs block serotonin reuptake, how antipsychotics target dopamine, and when ECT or TMS is used as a last resort #OpenStax #Psychology #CBT #MentalHealth #Psychotherapy OpenStax Content adapted from "OpenStax Psychology 2e", by OpenStax licensed under CC BY 4.0. Content based on Web Version: Apr 23, 2026. Read the textbook online https://openstax.org/details/books/psychology-2e Music first girl talking to me. by ikkun (ex. Barradeen) | https://soundcloud.com/ikkunwastaken Royalty Free Music by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
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