Posted by Noa on May 21, 2000, at 15:54:22
In reply to Re: Psychotherapy v. CBT, posted by boBB on May 20, 2000, at 18:23:32
> An easy way of summarizing psychoanalytic, cognitive and behavioral approaches might be that:
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> • psychoanalysis deals with how you arrived at an emotional condition.
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> • cognitive therapy deals with what you think about an emotional condition.
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> • behavioral therapy deals with what you are going to do about an emotional condition.Not exactly, boBB, not exactly.
All 3 approaches would say they are about all three of these things, but have differing theories about that.
Cognitive therapy is not about what you think about an emotional condition. It is about how your thought patterns might be contributing to how you feel. It is about examining your long held and previously unexamined assumptions, your thought habits, essentially, and to analyze their effects on how you experience yourself in the world, and trying to learn to think differently, in order to effect a new way of experiencing yourself in the world.
More tomorrow....they are closing the library now.....
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