Psychotherapy Models: A Historical Perspective

D. David; A. Szentagotai; D. Nechita; S. Ştefan

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00098-4

Psychotherapy Models: A Historical Perspective

D. David, A. Szentagotai, D. Nechita, S. Ştefan

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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The chapter exposes a brief history of psychotherapy following the framework of “scientific revolutions”, as advanced by Thomas Kuhn. Although philosophers and theologians have been preoccupied since ancient times with the sources of human suffering and its alleviation, psychotherapy only emerged in incipient forms in the 19th century. We will briefly present the major paradigms in psychotherapy—psychoanalytic-psychodynamic, humanistic-experiential-existential, systemic, and cognitive-behavioral—and we will discuss the most prominent schools, their core principles and treatment strategies, as well as their evidence base. Also, we will discuss the evolution of the field by analyzing its similarity with and divergence from the general theory of the scientific revolutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, Second Edition
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	1-25
Number of pages	25
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128186978
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818697-8.00098-4
State	Published - 1 Jan 2022

Keywords

Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Evidence-based practice
Humanistic-experiential
Paradigmatic shifts
Psychoanalytic-psychodynamic
Psychotherapy
Specific and common factors models
Systemic therapies
“Scientific revolutions” framework

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