- It focuses on 4 categories of problems; inter personal deficits, role disputes, role transitions & grief. - It was originally developed to treat depression. It has also been used in eating disorders, paicularly bulimia nervosa & binge- eating disorder. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy - They are derived from Sigmund Freud'sQ psychoanalytic techniques and are intended to promote self understanding and insight into recurring problems with others. - In therapy, the inter personal problems which are the result of defence mechanisms and intrapsychic conflicts are identified, interpreted, and managed. - The primary mode of therapeutic action of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is insight which may be defined as the conscious recognition of the role of unconscious factors (such as feelings, experiences & fantasies) on current experience and behavior. - Unconscious neurotic conflicts are recovered from memory & verbellay expressed, re experienced in the transference, reconstructed by analyst, & ultimately, resolved through understanding. Freud referred to these processes as recollection, repetition, and working through, which make up the totality of remembering, reliving, and gaining insight. Interpersonal Therapy (ITP) - It is a time limited treatment (12-20 sessions over 4-5 month period) which assumes that the development & maintenance of some psychiatric illnesses occur in interpersonal & social context, and that the onset, response to treatment and out comes are influenced by the inter personal relations between the patient & significant others. Psychodrama, Sociodrama, Sociometry & Sociatry - Jacob Levy Moreno hypothesized a model of health focusing on capacity for creativity, not pathology. It assumes that human beings learn primarily through interaction with social networks, which he called social atoms. Social atoms can depict all or any combinations of relationships: past, present, absent, alive or needed, positive, negative, neutral, ambivalent, mutul, nonmutual what needs to be changed / clarified/ staed / ended / substracted and added with whom the client is emotionally related. - The nucleus of social atom reflects oneself & first ring are those whose impact is most significant, and so on - It is based on theories and methods of the social atom, canon of creativity, therapeutic stage, psychodramatic mirror, surplus reality, auxiliary ego, role reversal, role playing, the empty chair, role theory, the double, encounter & development theory. - Therapeutic dramatization of emotional problems includes the protagonist, auxiliary ego, director and group. A client (patient or protagonist), works with a psychodramatist (director, leader or therapist) who uses a sequence of methods to guide a protagonist (in psychodrama) or group (in sociodrama) in their experiential exploration of any aspect of the past, present or future towards the acquisition of insight. An auxiliary ego is another group member, who may be asked by the protagonist or director to represent a person or aspect (someone or something) in protagonist's experience. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Originally developed for chronically self injurious patients with borderline personality disorder and parasuicidal behavior, using techniques involving advice, metaphor, story telling, and confrontation among others.">