Posted by Twinleaf on May 25, 2012, at 21:30:16
In reply to Re: psychoanalysis, posted by sigismund on May 17, 2012, at 0:15:51
So many changes have occurred since Freud. No-one practices at all the way he did, although he was just remarkable in what he wrote and did in his lifetime. I think the biggest change, both in analysis and in less-frequent psychotherapy, is the lesser reliance on interpretation, and the much greater emphasis on the relationship itself, and especially on the non-verbal aspects of it. It's astonishing to realize that more than 90% of all communication is in fact non- verbal, and that this also applies to therapy, even with it's heavy reliance on putting things into words. I guess it's all the little, un-noticed things that happen in between the words that have the most powerful impact on helping people feel better. Kind of amazing to think about!
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