Medical Psychotherapy Definitionis the joint use of both medical
therapy and psychotherapy during treatment of a patient.
Medical PsychotherapyMedical psychotherapy is fundamental to
American psychiatry and essential to the skills of psychiatrist It
employs verbal communication to treat a broad spectrum of mental
disorders, dysfunction, and distress. Background of Medical
PsychotherapyBegan with FreudHe was obsessed with finding the cure
for hysteriaDeveloped what Joseph Breuer had earlier the talking
cure using the procedure known as PsychoanalysisAccording to Freud,
Psychoanalysis was a product of the medical community and
everything associated with it was cast in medical termsHysteria,
along with other psychological problems was a mental illnessThe
medical model was applied to psychological problems and
psychotherapeutic processes as it had been applied to physical
illness and healing
At the beginning, medical model was problematicMental illness
was not the same as physical illnessMany psychotherapists sensed a
contradiction between the medical models description of therapy and
what actually occurred in therapyThe therapeutic establishment,
following the footsteps of Freud, continued to use the medical
model as the primary explanatory system for psychotherapy
