User:Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychology

Psychotherapy

1. General aspects of psychotherapy

1.1. Origin of the psychotherapy

Before psychology will be consolidated as a science, the human beings have always been worrying about their mental issues, that would explain the different techniques used by our ancestors with the objective of giving an explanation to their problems, for example magic, exorcism, confession, hypnosis, practical philosophy or espiritual advices.

Nevertheless, with modernity and our neoliberal societies the worries were on a scientific explanation for this kind of intervention. The beginning of psychology as a science during the XIX century was an important moment for this, now the focus was on quantitative aspects and the connection between mind and body was what they were looking for. This step allowed us to move along to new ways of scientific psychotherapies, without magical or spiritual beliefs. (García, 2015)