Posted by AuntieMel on August 20, 2004, at 11:46:30
In reply to Re: return to therapy/Questions » fires, posted by underthecs on August 19, 2004, at 15:00:49
I have a couple of questions/observation about your post (and I encourage a reply):
"Just curious as to why you seem so adamant about eliminating the human element of therapy. "
"Are you afraid of the relationship?"It's obvious that any therapy contains a human element. But, by "human element" do you mean "emotional element?" To me they are not the same thing.
Human element to me means interaction, some give and take, but more of a professional relationship.
Emotional element is much more. It involves having the person become part of your emotional being.
If I understand it right, CBT is about the human element of feedback giving new ways of thinking about and interpreting the same data, data that might have caused the client a bad reaction of sort. The emotional element is introduced only on occasion to figure out *why* that data invokes the reaction, so that the new way of thinking can stick.
It seems perfectly reasonable to me to want (need) the human element on a professional level, but not want (or need) the emotional bits. This is exactly the relationship I have with my therapist and it works for me.
CBT may or may not lead to more intense 'personal' therapy, but it seems to me to be a dang good start in increasing function.
Ok, so the question. Just so we are talking about the same thing. When you say human element, are you referring to the same thing I call emotional element?
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