Posted by glenn on December 5, 2004, at 13:16:01
In reply to Re: med list. » glenn, posted by lostforwards on December 5, 2004, at 12:51:35
The problem is that if therapy is not working, they (therapists) do not appear to have much else to offer.
Take CBT for example, if thoughts lead to feelings , then if the process to change your thoughts isnt working, as you originated the thoughts it must be you blocking/ preventing their change. No good therapist would say this of course but it is clearly implicit in the theory.
Now that Le Doux has proven the thoughts / feelings idea to be incorrect, at least some of the time ,there will have been many people treated with an innapropriate therapy and who were probably made to feel worse by the very theoretical assumption of the therapy.
Therapy is fine as long as the therapist is open to other stratagems and not so blinkered by their own theoretical structure as to be unable to accept that the therapy itself may be the problem.( ie that its unsuitablilty is part of what is stopping improvement)
Glenn
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