Chapter Introduction

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An Introduction to Treatment

Who Gets Treatment?

A Primitive Past: The History of Treatment

Treatment Today: An Overview of Major Approaches

Insight Therapies

Taking It to the Couch, Freudian Style: Psychoanalysis

Goodbye, Couch; Hello, Chairs: Psychodynamic Therapy

You Can Do It! Humanistic Therapy

Behavior and Cognitive Therapies

Get to Work! Behavior Therapy

You Are What You Think: Cognitive Therapies

Biomedical Therapies

Medicines That Help: Psychopharmacology

When Drugs Aren’t Enough: The Other Biomedical Therapies

Psychotherapy: Who’s in the Mix?

Let’s Get Through This Together

Does Psychotherapy Work?

Nonstandard Treatment: Self-Help and E-Therapy

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