Psychotherapy is based on research in areas such as personality, learning, motivation, and emotion.

Psychotherapy

A therapeutic process, often called "talk therapy", used to treat mental health problems by talking with a psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health provider.

Personality

The reasonably stable patterns of emotions, motives, and behavior that distinguish one person from another.

Learning

(1) According to behaviorists, a relatively permanent change in behavior that results from experience; (2) according to cognitive theorists, the process by which organisms make relatively permanent changes in the way they represent the environment because of experience.