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General Information

Treatment

The Oxford Dictionary defines treatment as "something done in order to relieve or cure an illness or abnormality". The term 'treatment' is very broad and means different things to different people. For some, treatment automatically equates with medications. However, whilst medications can play an important role, it is only one part of the armory in the battle to regain mental health.

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a method of inducing a flow of electrical current within brain cells (called neurons) by the external application of a magnetic field.

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Stress management techniques

In our day-to-day lives, we have to deal with a number of stresses. The manner in which people deal with these differs considerably and is a function of personality. For some people (at least 20% of the population) such everyday stresses build tension in the body unless something is done to reduce it. A build-up of stress may make people feel on edge and can produce tension in muscles and the mind.

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Stress

Individuals live with varying amounts of stress, and each faces different stressors with a response that is unique to themsleves and the particular situation.
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Smoking Cessation

In many countries, developed or developing, including Australia, tobacco products remain the largest contributors to lifestyle-related death and disability. Read on if you want to quit or know someone else who wants to stop smoking.

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Self-psychology

Self-psychology is a theory developed by an American psychiatrist, Dr Heinz Kohut, in the 1970s and 80s. It attempts to explain the development of mental health problems by identifying difficulties experienced during childhood when children are thought to be particularly sensitive to interactions with others, especially their parents.

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Psychoanalysis

The famous psychiatrist, Dr Sigmund Freud, who began practicing in the late 19th century, first developed psychoanalysis. The classic image, often seen in movies and cartoons, of a patient lying on a couch with the therapist behind them writing on a notepad comes directly from the psychoanalytic technique.

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Phototherapy

Phototherapy is the controlled use of artificial light in the treatment of medical and psychiatric disorders. Phototherapy has proven helpful in both the treatment of psoriasis and in physiological jaundice of newborn babies.
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