Posted by rskontos on February 18, 2008, at 20:41:34
In reply to Re: Therapy - Bang for the Buck?, posted by Hermitian on February 18, 2008, at 18:57:45
Hermitian,
I was not going to engage in this discuss for not wanting to get sanctioned myself for not being diplomatic. I myself find it hard to think however hard the struggle to watch someone go through having a loved one with MI and losing them still allows you to have an objective perspective on how beneficial the therapuctic relationship is or is not unless the experience is more direct. Empathy is one thing and sympathy is another thing all together.
Lurking on this site, has taught me a great deal about therapy. So I beg to disagree humbly with your viewpoint. And jumping in from time to time, is just a snippet of a moment in time of what truly goes on here and what goes on in the therapy of any one person's therapy.
If you look at any one person's life, you could say that what they are doing at any one moment in time might be a waste of that particular moment, however, in context to the whole of the life, it is fits. This can be said of therapy. No part of therapy is snippets however you look at it.
The length of time it takes for any one person to make progress is not up to the provider anymore than a doctor's diagnosis of someone with a medical condition saying you will be well by x date. The progress a person makes in therapy is a mixture of the therapist along with the patient, the meds they may be on, the life experiences, the current life condition, and a numerous other factors that just can not be broken down into money, time and therapist qualifications as you seem to think it should be. It is hard I think, to break it down like you seem to want to in order to identify as these people are here to long and are still having problems so therefore their therapist are either a quacks or their conditions are too hard to define for therapy. It is just not that simple as life is not a simple process to live or break down.
I wish it was. It is not. Therapy is not about money. It is time about time. It is not about applying values of belonging to anyone except those belonging to those in the room at the time therapy is occuring. And I think you must be involved in the process to truly to appreciate its merits.If you disagree I respect that and I hope you respect the rights of all here to have their opinions and express their views as well with respect of the therapy process itself.
And where exactly did you want it to go?
rsk
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