Posted by nadezda on December 6, 2009, at 10:04:51
In reply to therapy question, posted by Elizabeth31 on December 5, 2009, at 21:05:16
Hi, Elizabeth.
There are different approaches to helping people, as well as differents goals in therapy. Often cognitive therapy is more focused on the relationship between thoughts (particularly negative thoughts) and feelings. So therapists will often work with changing or reframing experiences by changing the thoughts that patients have in response to them, for example. It's often a more skill-based and time-limited type of therapy, where results are expected more quickly and strategies can be offered and then implemented by the patient.
Psychodynamic therapy involves a longer, deeper exploration and working-through of issues that are of importance, often going in detail through past experiences and trying to understand and then over time to reexperience them within the context of therapy, with a better outcome and therefore a renewed sense of possibiity in life.
Sorry, I have to go now. Those are two sort of schematic differences in the two forms of therapy that mentioned, and I hope they clarify a bit.
best, Nadezda
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