ABSTRACT
Introduction ................................................................ 214 Psychodynamic therapies ............................................ 215 Cognitive behavioural therapy ...................................... 216 Eye movement desensitation and reprocessing .............. 217 Other forms of behavioural therapy ............................... 217 Interpersonal therapy................................................... 218
Group therapies .......................................................... 218 Counselling ................................................................. 219 Family therapy ............................................................ 220 Psycho-education ....................................................... 220 Summary ................................................................... 221 Further reading ........................................................... 221
Psychiatrists do not just prescribe pills! We have a further armoury to call on, that of the psychological therapies. ese therapies usually involve an interaction between an individual or group of individuals and a therapist or therapists, although, increasingly, psychological treatments are being delivered with limited therapist input. Examples include guided selfhelp, where an individual is given written or computer materials to follow with only limited therapist contact, or pure self-help, where the individual does not interact with a therapist. Over the years dierent types of psychological treatment have been developed, all of which share some important features as summarized by Jerome Frank (Box 17.1). In this chapter
only the commoner forms of psychological treatment will be considered. In addition to these therapies psycho-education has been included, which although not a psychotherapy in its purest form is an increasingly important type of therapy, which is widely delivered to patients including those with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
