The importance of drugs in psychotherapy increased during the middle of the last century, with the onset of these drugs, and has become one of the most used forms of treatment within the treatment centers in particular, and has been considered a modern methods of psychological therapy based on attention to symptoms, its severity and the focus on the complaint caused by the moment of occurrence, although drugs have contributed significantly to the healing of immediate symptoms, but this do not mean that they are used excessively or indiscriminately, without referring to other methods, which are the principles of reassurance organized by mental care workers.

What have contributed to the increased importance of drugs in psychotherapy?

* The spread of drugs has contributed to increased compliance of psychiatric patients, and have become more cooperative with their therapists, especially in severe cases where there may be a complete mental breakdown, a qualitative advantage that gave the importance of drugs in psychotherapy additional value.

* The drugs have made comprehensive behavioral changes for all mental patients. They are able to turn aggressive people into natural persons, which their chemical nature has helped to alleviate these symptoms to a large extent by reducing the severity of muscle tensions, which are one of the most distressing symptoms in the patient psychological, for its calming effect and a stimulant on sleep and constipation.

* - The importance of drugs in psychotherapy is to reduce the number of inmates in mental health clinics, they have helped to a large extent on the recovery of many of them, but in return provided a fertile environment for addiction and physical dependence on it and this was the most prominent reason to reduce the consumption of high concentrations of sedatives and random without medical supervision, with the preparation of many awareness campaigns and guardianship of their use.

* The diversity in the mechanism of the work of psychotropic drugs work on the formation of a specific direction based on the diagnosis of symptoms of mental illness contributed to the more expression of the importance of drugs in psychotherapy, also there are  antiperspirants, antipsychotics and antidepressants (the most important drugs in psychotherapy), as well as great tranquilizers such as schizophrenia, antipsychotics, and there are hypnotics that can be used in cases of chronic insomnia.

* Helping the psychiatric patient to return to society, and to enjoy a better degree of happiness and adaptation to the environment around him, has been the most prominent role in increasing the importance of drugs in psychotherapy.

In this regard, the British Academy for Training and Development offers courses in public health, including mental health, highlighting many of the modern methods and methods of psychotherapy in order to improve the health management of medical institutions or other institutions.