Posted by SLS on August 6, 2013, at 5:08:33
In reply to Re: do you think of therapy as having a goal?, posted by alexandra_k on August 6, 2013, at 3:38:58
I don't see CBT as being an answer so much as it is an interventional technique.
In my experience, CBT can be very useful to deal with negative thoughts and associations quickly as they occur near the surface. If practiced with guidance, I think that counterproductive core beliefs can be challenged with reality testing, but this does not occur instantaneously. It is a top-down, trickle-down approach. I don't think that CBT is a replacement for interpersonal or psychodynamic psychotherapies, but it can act as a supplement to them.
I have heard it said by others that CBT can do more harm than good. I don't understand why.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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