Posted by fleeting flutterby on June 23, 2009, at 15:59:53
In reply to Re: More than just one therapy....... » fleeting flutterby, posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on June 23, 2009, at 12:48:03
> 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.<<
---flutterby: oy vey..... *sigh*.... there is so much out there!
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> 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...
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> 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).<<---flutterby: Certainly. I'm not offended at all. I appreciate your replies. People have posted that CBT is crap and I'm not offended, though I wish others would put the "IMO" in such a statement-- as CBT has given me a much better quality of life-- with that said, I know that one size doesn't fit all and everyone can have their own opinion.
Is it the transference that you don't care for in psychodynamic therapy? I don't care for that either. I think it sometimes can cause one to remain "stuck" and not progress, as the focus turns to the transference instead of working on the issues one came in to get help for originally.(It probably doesn't happen in all cases though, like I said-- one size doesn't fit all-- some things work for some and other things work for others)
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