Other therapies focus on what and how we think--for example, cognitive therapy. By contrast, psychodynamic psychotherapy focuses on how we feel and how our mind works. Although we sometimes jokingly claim to have analysed our friends, we know that we can do nothing of the sort. Dr. Sigmund...
Behavior therapy assumes the behavior itself is the problem and tries to address the symptoms by changing the behavior itself through new or replacement behavior. Behavior therapy is a pure assumption in my opinion that the behavior can just be cured entirely without acknowledging the root of the ...
The presenting past: the core of psychodynamic counselling and therapy "Everyone who works with clients will welcome Michael Jacobs eminently readable and stimulating new book. Drawing on the works of Erikson, Winnicott, and other relational theorists, Jacobs articulates the three major development them...
Psychodynamic therapy for depression has received considerable empirical support in recent years, and can presently be designated as efficacious (Leichsenring, Leweke, Klein, & Steinert, 2015). Although psychodynamic theory and therapy are widely used in clinical practice, empirically supported protocols ...
Psychodynamic theory is also criticized for being unscientific and unfalsifiable—it is impossible to prove the theory to be false. Many of Freud’s theories were based on single cases observed in therapy and remain difficult to test. For example, there’s no way to empirically research the unc...
When using behavior modification in therapy today you would want to treat the patient’s potential self-destructive behavior by replacing bad behavior with good behavior. If you are constantly focusing on the past this would be difficult. Although you would have to touch somewhat on t...
The retrospective design of the study afforded a full data set, patients were included regardless of diagnosis or number of health problems, and therapy was provided by both experienced therapists and psychiatric trainees. All of this allows the results to be more easily applied to the ‘real ...
Understandingwhy, howandfor whoma treatment works can offer insight how to ameliorate the treatment techniques and interventions to optimize its effectiveness [23]. This could be approached by studying predictors and therapy-specific and non-specific (common) working mechanisms. There are only a few...
Institution: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) - A branch of the International Psychoanalytic Association, IPTAR plays an active role in supporting empirical research on psychoanalytic theory and therapy. http://www.iptar.org/ ...
However, while it eliminates paradoxes of the mind by not dealing with these aspects, it is also unable to account for the mind's complexity, or where the mind becomes more human than machine. Its therapeutic methods of cognitive behavioral therapy yield better quantitative results than ...