Posted by Dinah on January 18, 2006, at 19:48:49
In reply to Re: okay so this isn't working out :-( » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on January 18, 2006, at 19:32:01
I think the more recent psychoanalytic writings aren't all that negative. Have you read the more recent stuff?
I think an interpretation is "true" if it is true for that client. My therapist always proposes things, he doesn't assert them. It's up to me to decide if he's right or not.
But how are those different than what CBT therapists do, in the long run? Aren't they always having you figure out what your secondary gain, or internal dialogues are? And don't they try pretty hard to *tell* you what those are?
Maybe it is more of an art.
Isn't literature supposed to tell great truths about the human condition? Yet isn't it just as likely that the authors who you would identify as speaking great truths aren't necessarily the same ones who I would identify? It doesn't mean the author isn't speaking truths about the human condition, just not about everybody's human condition.
And it doesn't mean that a therapist can't point out our unconscious motivations, or our truths, or why we do the things we do.
Sigh. I don't know, and I'm not sure my thinking is clear enough to even know what I'm talking about.
I just know that when I was going to therapy twice a week and things were working, I sure was doing better than I am now. :(
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