Have you ever needed to conduct psychotherapy on someone but didn't know how to do it? Fear no more, because I'm about to tell you about the 4 main methods of therapy, which will allow you to help your friends and family in ways you never thought possible before. The four types of therapies I will talk about today are psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive and behavioral. You may want to consider which method is best for you, or which method will work best for the situation you or your friend is facing. The psychoanalytic method involves precisely this, the analysis of the psyche. When using this method, your goal would be to replace a person's self-destructive behavior with positive behavior that will help them achieve their personal goals of normalcy. You may also want to reduce their inappropriate feelings of anxiety and guilt, leading them to more feelings of happiness and joy. There are 3 techniques used in this method of therapy: free association, dream analysis and transference. Free association involves letting the patient relax and say whatever comes to mind, thereby revealing what they are really thinking in their subconscious. Dream analysis involves the analysis of dream content, which can also be broken down into manifest content and latent content. Manifest content is the apparent images and scenes that the patient remembers and describes in their dream, while latent content is the real meanings behind the manifest content. Transference is the concept that because the analyst listens to and relates to the patient a lot, he becomes a sort of parental figure for the patient, and the analyst can use this to his benefit by asking questions that only a parent might ask. This was the psychic environment of the paper...tended to this. Aversive conditioning involves replacing an old positive response to a stimulus with a new negative response. For example, instead of feeling relaxed after smoking a cigarette, a therapist might make a patient feel another negative emotion like embarrassment or fear. The final method of behavior therapy is operand conditioning, which has been used for years and simply involves rewarding someone for good behavior and removing the reward for bad behavior. In conclusion, after reading this essay, you should be better able to help your friends and loved ones. with the problems they may face through the use of psychotherapy. You should be able to choose one or more of the four types of therapy and choose one that suits you and your personality, in combination with the situation you are facing. Who knows, you might even become famous for your talents one day.