Posted by fleeting flutterby on June 23, 2009, at 9:50:54
In reply to Re: More than just one therapy....... » fleeting flutterby, posted by Dinah on June 22, 2009, at 19:03:41
> 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".<<
----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.<<---flutterby: Yea, that makes sense.
>> Which is his nice way of saying I was way too hardheaded for straight CBT.<<
--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?)
>>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.<<
----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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