Posted by alexandra_k on March 7, 2005, at 23:19:21
In reply to Re: :-) » alexandra_k, posted by pinkeye on March 7, 2005, at 22:14:42
> If you don't want to change the way you perceive things and the way you feel, what are you hoping to accomplish by going to therapy?
Firstly - acceptance is just as important as change IMO. Sometimes I just need to hear that I am okay. My perceptions and feelings are acceptable, understandable, justified, allowed. We are allowed to feel that way and that is fine. That is okay. That we don't have to change to be acceptable either to ourself or to others.
Secondly - CBT isn't the only therapy that looks at altering the clients perceptions and feelings. I dare say all therapies look at that. But different theories have different strategies for effecting those changes. Cognitive restructuring is not well suited to me. I find it to be invalidating of my experience (because of 1) and I have philosophical objections to the theory too.
If it works for you, if you can find some use in it then that is terrific! Really. It is like how some people do well on a certain kind of med and others have an allergic reaction.
> Out of curiosity - so what else do you think would be suited to you?Don't know. I am tempted to say anything but behaviourist and cognitive therapies. I'd like to try something psychodynamic... Or maybe humanistic... I don't know. I don't know enough about them. I am not picky to tell you the truth, at this point I just want someone anyone who is not a CBT therapist.
Good therapists can quite often transcend their theorietical orientation anyway..
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