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Definition:
• Techniques employed to improve psychological functioning and promote adjustment to life.
• The process used by mental health professionals to help individuals recognize, define, and overcome their psychological and interpersonal difficulties
Psychotherapy is an intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a client in problems of living. It aims to increase the individual's sense of well-being and reduce their subjective sense of discomfort. Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on experiential relationship building, dialogue, communication and behavior change and that are designed to improve the mental health of a client or patient, or to improve group relationships (such as in a family). Psychotherapy may be performed by practitioners with a number of different qualifications, including psychologists, marriage and family therapists, licensed clinical social workers, counselors, psychiatric nurses, and psychiatrists.
Why is Therapy Needed?
• Disturbed thoughts
• Disturbed emotions
• Disturbed behaviors
• Interpersonal and life situation difficulties
• Biomedical disturbances


Forms and types:
• Psychodynamic/Psychoanalysis Therapies
• Behavior Therapies
• Humanistic Therapies
• Cognitive Therapies
• Group and Family Therapies

Most forms of psychotherapy use spoken conversation. Some also use various other forms of communication such as the written word, artwork, drama, narrative story or music. Psychotherapy occurs within a structured encounter between a trained therapist and client(s). Purposeful, theoretically [based psychotherapy began in the 19th century with psychoanalysis;] since then, scores of other approaches have been developed and continue to be created.
Therapy is generally employed in response to a variety of specific or non-specific manifestations of clinically diagnosable and/or existential crises. Treatment of everyday problems is more often referred to as...