Biomedical Therapies: A Case Study

1.)As an individual highly interested in pursing a career in the filed of psychiatry, this chapter included very valuable information on the different therapeutic approaches. I must also point out that I have a great respect for biomedical therapies, as it is a point of interest for choosing psychiatry as my intended career choice and has shown to significantly improve the lives of many suffering from psychological disorders. However, putting biomedical therapies aside I have gained great appreciation for cognitive behavior therapy. This type of therapy combines the idea of cognitive behavior that “thinking colors our feelings” so we are capable of changing the way we think (a concept I very much enjoyed reading about) and the way we act in order to overcome disorders. I think this approach is one of the best, as it not only would influence one to think in a more positive way but also to act upon those positive feelings, the positivity it fuels is highly …show more content…
Reading about this therapy I couldn’t help but relate it to the film “A Clockwork Orange,” in which Alex is conditioned to be repulsed and nauseated by violence, after being incarcerated for multiple sadistic offenses, and although he seems cured the methods and side affects are frightening. The film on its own would be enough to keep me far away from this therapy, but other reasons I would take into consideration before undergoing aversive conditioning would be the low rates of continuous success and the things that can go wrong with conditioning such as our cognition influencing it and the possibility of it undergoing “extinction” as Alex seems to eventually do in the film or even prompting “aversion” from other things not originally meant to be avoided like Beethoven’s Symphonies, as seen in Alex’s case , (although a fictional event it is a point that creates