Posted by g_g_g_unit on October 12, 2013, at 11:30:26
I've done a bunch of CBT over the years -- usually with recent graduates (due to more accommodating hourly rates), and one or two academics ..
regardless, I found working with a psychodynamic therapist/psychiatrist for about a year so much more intensely rewarding. I probably filled out hundreds of CBT worksheets and they barely made a dent in my psyche, but, even with my disintegrating memory/cognition, there are a handful of piercing insights from my psychiatrist that I don't think will leave me. I have a natural tendency to want to challenge and rebel authority figures, but he seemed to cut through that.
I don't know why that's the case .. if it's the nature of the process, or the fact that I respected him so much and was in awe of his intelligence.
I don't want to denigrate CBT, as I'm sure the practitioners are intelligent, but I just find it so bland and the 'advice' they offer me often just feels ripped-from-the-pages or something .. I have to continue with at some stage, since I have OCD, but I tried seeing a psychologist recently again (younger, maybe late 30s) and was bored. I wonder if I should look for someone older, but then I do worry about how up-to-date they might be, since the field seems to change so much
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