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Outline 2 therapies based on the somatic approach including their use and mode of action.
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Outline 2 therapies based on the somatic approach including their use and mode of action. There are 3 main types of somatic therapies; chemotherapy, ECT (electro-convulsive therapy) and psychosurgery. They are all used to treat psychological illnesses in particular, depression. Psychosurgery (or lobotomies) and ECT are as controversial as each other. Psychosurgery is not understood, there is no universally accepted reason for why one third or people recover from depression (or report a certain percentage of depression recovered from). There are nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the rest of the brain. The idea behind psychosurgery, later proven to be invalid, was that these nerves were somehow malformed or damaged, and if they were severed they might regenerate into new, healthy connections. Contrary to popular belieft, the operation was not used only on psychiatric patients. Many people were lobotomized for "intractable pain", such as chronic, severe backaches or agonizing headaches. The three...
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