Robin Webb
CJA/394
April 20, 2015
Robert Greenwood
Psychotherapy and Therapeutic Treatment Timeline
1900- Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams. Sigmund Freud, a neuroscientist, is also known as the founding father of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness and also a theory that explains human behavior. Psychoanalysis is used today as a method to treat mental disorders in patients by creating an environment of open dialogue (McLeod, 2007).
1938- Electroshock Convulsive Therapy (ECT) introduced by Lucio Bini and Ugo Cerlitti. ECT is a psychiatric treatment that causes seizures that are medically induced in patients. Most patients had some type of