Throughout history there have been many disagreements on how to treat people with mental illnesses. During the eighteenth century, many people viewed treatment as sending those afflicted with mental illness into isolation or casting out evil spirits that ‘were inside the individual’. It was not until Philippe Pinel suggested moral treatment for those who had mental illnesses that things began to change. Today, there are many forms of therapies designed to assist those with mental illnesses. Two forms of therapy used today are psychoanalytic and humanistic. Psychoanalysis and humanistic therapies are both common practices and have many differences and similarities. Psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud during the twentieth century
