Posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on June 23, 2009, at 12:48:03
In reply to Re: More than just one therapy....... » Dinah, posted by fleeting flutterby on June 23, 2009, at 9:50:54
in truth, I don't know of therapists who aren't eclectic anymore, if eclectic means that they don't stick very strictly to one way of doing things in every session. but that doesn't mean that an eclectic therapist will work from a framework of psychodynamic. there are tons of frameworks, including gestalt, humanist, existential, cognitive, behavorial, psychodynamic, jungian (I know a jungian therapist--he is a friend--he tried to get me in therapy with him, but I said, nooooo--to me, that's a lot of squishiness in boundaries, often the case with these jungians :-) ), dialectical-behavioral. an eclectic therapist may use one or more of these, and may use all. a therapist may use humanist, gestalt, and cbt. a therapist may not find anything useful from behavioral, just as she might not find anything useful from psychodynamic.
and so, a therapist may encourage discussion of childhood issues (and you are so right, with abuse, that can be important) but that doesn't mean she is psychodynamic. yours probably is, but not necessarily...
just wanted to put that out there, flutterby-mandy. I know you will take it in the spirit is intended--as discussion, illumination, not argument, though you and others know that I myself do not care for psychodynamic schools of thought in practice (though in theory, they are interesting, especially when tempered by a feminist view).
> > But he says that his first job was with a very psychodynamic therapist, his second with a family systems therapist, and then CBT and I believe addictions. So he calls himself the ubiquitous "eclectic".<<
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> ----flutterby: I think "eclectic" is the best kind of therapy. (IMO)
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> > He never uses the CBT standard terminology with me... anymore. He says it's more important that the message be heard than it is to say the message in a certain way.<<
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> ---flutterby: Yea, that makes sense.
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> >> Which is his nice way of saying I was way too hardheaded for straight CBT.<<
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> --flutterby: hmmmm... you think so? I think it could also mean that some are quite fragile(like me) and can benefit from things worded in gentler ways.(that's how I interpret psychodynamic therapy-- touchy feely stuff, "my mother beat me, my father was absent--I'm so sad" and then the therapist says-- "well lets talk about that". whereas-- in strict CBT the focus would be on doing things today that would turn the sadness to happiness - which can be good-- to learn to do things that change ones focus to positive, but can also invalidate the "child mind" that is still injured. that's why I am thinking "eclectic" therapy may work best for certain people-- maybe even most people?)
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> >>The emphasis is on current functioning, but inevitably history played a role in molding my current responses, and deserves a role in fine tuning them.<<
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> ----flutterby: Yea, I agree. in my case the "fine tuning" seems to be a "major overhaul" *sigh*......... (never thought I'd be told by educated people, that my thinking is all off..... i thought I was always right on the mark in the way I think/behave)
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