What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of treating depression by antidepressant drugs, psychotherapy, or electroconvulsive therapy?
What will be an ideal response?
Antidepressant drugs and psychotherapy are effective for about the same percentage of people (and both are only moderately more effective than placebos). Antidepressants are demonstrably more effective than placebos only for people with severe depression. Antidepressants are cheaper and more convenient, and they tend to show benefits a bit more quickly. However, antidepressants produce many unpleasant side effects, and the benefits of psychotherapy tend to be more long-lasting. Electroconvulsive therapy is often effective for people who do not respond to either antidepressants or psychotherapy. The benefits of electroconvulsive therapy generally emerge more quickly than the benefits of the other treatments, but they are the least long-lasting. Also, electroconvulsive therapy sometimes causes memory impairments.
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a) positive view of the self and a negative view of the world b) positive view of the world, but they view the self and in the future negatively c) negative view only of the self d) negative view of the self, the world, and the future.
According to Freud, both hysterical symptoms and dreams could be:?
a. ?viewed as symbolic manifestations of repressed traumatic thoughts b. ?discarded during the therapeutic process c. ?taken at face value without needing to know what they symbolized d. ?analyzed quite simply even by individuals with minimal professional training