Posted by messadivoce on July 28, 2005, at 23:29:05
In reply to Lott: guest author for a week, posted by Dr. Bob on July 28, 2005, at 8:33:55
When I was 16 I went to a therapist who I recognize now was a CBT. She really wasn't very helpful, short term OR long term. I didn't develop any feelings for her, and she didn't encourage them or talk about our relationship. We made lists of the things in my life that were bad and then re-wrote them so they did't seem so bad. The problem was, things were still bad after therapy. She didn't give me any "tools" to deal with my circumstances.
I think with a few well placed questions, she could have discovered a lot and worked with me on deeper issues that my psychodynamic therapist later found. She didn't even communicate to me about my therapy ending. It just kind of ended. I wasn't sad about it because I didn't have any feelings for her either way. She actually expressed annoyance over things I said and did, like when I expressed embarrassment over meeting someone I knew in her waiting room. She could have dug deeper and asked WHY was I embarrassed? What did that mean about people's perceptions of me? And so on.
So I'm not a fan of CBT...but psychodynamic therapy just seems too scary right now since I had such a hard termination with my therapist of that orientation. I'm afraid of getting taken apart and then left with the pieces.
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