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Psychotherapy treats psychological disorders with techniques designed

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to help clients understand their problems or modify their problem behaviors.

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In contrast, biomedical therapies treat psychological disorders

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with techniques designed to alter brain chemistry.

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The various types of psychotherapy derive from psychology’s major perspectives on disorders.

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Psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud to give clients self-insight

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into repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts stemming from early childhood.

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Humanistic therapies such as client-centered therapy

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emphasize human potential, self-awareness, and freedom of choice.

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Behavior therapies focus on directly changing problem behaviors

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by using basic principles of classical and operant conditioning.

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Cognitive therapies are based on the assumption that psychological problems

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(especially depression) are caused in part by maladaptive patterns of thinking.

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Group therapy and family therapies emphasize the importance of social interactions

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within families and other groups, and try to use those interactions

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to help the person understand and change problem behaviors.

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Many therapists have adopted an eclectic approach that combines techniques from several different types of therapies.