Psychotherapy basics: CBT, counseling, ECT
Psychiatry · MBBS
Study notes
Catatonia — not eating, rigid; ECT course; eats, moves. Psychotherapy: CBT (cognitive — thoughts → feelings → behaviors: identify distortions — homework — anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD), counseling (SOLER — sit, open, lean, eye, relax; empathy — unconditional; confidentiality), supportive (reassurance — all), family (psychoeducation — reduces relapse — schizophrenia), ECT (modified — thiopentone + succinylcholine — indications — severe depression, catatonia, psychotic depression, mania — safe — memory — transient). Therapy is structured — homework matters.