Career In Therapist

A Career in Therapy Being a therapist can be a very rewarding job. You can help people, feel a sense of self worth for helping them, and, you get paid for it. There are many different types of therapy for many different types of problems. You have physical therapy for sports injuries, muscle problems, and many other types of body problems. There are family or marriage counselors for helping families or couples with problems at home. There are even musical therapists that try and help people with musical therapy. This helps people with emotional problems try to ease their problems by listening to music. Each therapist has different training and different methods or techniques to help their patients with their problems. This paper will focus on

The study of the mind was no exception to the dark ways. People in the middle ages believed that mental problems were works of the supernatural. People that were thought to have any type of illness were tortured to get a confession that the sick person was possessed by a demon. Over time, the trauma of such treatment made the mental illness worse. After the disturbing results, physicians began to use psychotherapy instead of torture to try and help people. A man from the middle ages named Paraclesus used psychotherapy rather than torture to treat the mentally insane. Thankfully, by the 1850’s, mental health study had become more humane. Around this time a man named Sigmund Freud made significant contributions to the studies of the human mind and how it works. He believed that mental illness was caused by keeping traumatic memories in the unconscious part of your brain. His way of treating patients was to talk about the memories that had been held back and hidden for long periods of time to keep from causing more emotional trauma to the patient. Bringing up these memories and talking about them reduced symptoms in the mentally ill