What is The Role of Therapy?
The necessity of the therapeutic action
1. The clients can achieve clarity of thoughts surrounding their symptoms and afflictions.
2. The clients get to untangle the many shades and nuances of their complex thoughts and feelings.
3. It can also help them adopt a different outlook towards reality or external stimuli.
4. It can help them change how they process and interpret life experiences.
5. Therapy forges a way to find closure from unresolved traumas and emotional wounds.
6. After prolonged exposure to therapeutic sessions, the patient comes to terms with their wishes and desires, which, in turn, empower them to make informed decisions in their life.
Psychoanalytical and psychodynamic
This school of therapeutic praxis is based on the fundamental assumption that there is an unconscious, i.e. a repository of latent thoughts and wishes which, in waking life, remains barred from our conscious recognition. However, glimpses of unconscious wishes might leak into our dreams, tongue-twisters, misreadings, slips and speech disorders. The adherents to this school believe it is possible to apprehend the unconscious in action by closely following the client’s speech and reading their speech between the lines. Once the patient or analysand opens up to the psychoanalyst, they direct their latent wishes to the place of the therapist. Thereby, it becomes possible for the therapist to work on the same wishes that are impairing normal functionality.
Cognitive and behavioural
The underlying premise of this school of practice is what causes a person’s malady of the mind is not the objective life events but how they perceive these events, how they form thoughts, make connections, etc. In a nutshell, what encumbers the victims the most is the meaning they assign to their life events. It is the stake of cognitive behavioural therapists to demonstrate that everyone has the power to change how they think about their life events. Cognitive and behavioural psychotherapy aims to bring about this very change in the person.
Humanistic
Unlike psychoanalysis, the humanistic approach declines to found its premise on the existence of the unconscious, or for that matter, it declines to think of human subjects as an effect of flawed unconscious drives. Instead, it adopts a humanistic approach or a more interactive way to aid the patients in exploring their thoughts and emotions. Here, the therapists see the patients as responsible agents of their actions, not categorizing their actions as subconscious or unconscious.
Systemic
A systemic approach is different from all the hitherto mentioned approaches as this approach is recommended for group therapy settings instead of individuals, like couples, friends and family. The systemic approach views the individual as part of the bigger social order and assesses how the individual performs as part of that social fabric. So, this approach is more suitable for strengthening community bonds or restoring dysfunctional community links. The systemic approach appears to be extremely effective for combatting drug addiction.
Psychoanalytical and psychodynamic
This school of therapeutic praxis is based on the fundamental assumption that there is an unconscious, i.e. a repository of latent thoughts and wishes which, in waking life, remains barred from our conscious recognition. However, glimpses of unconscious wishes might leak into our dreams, tongue-twisters, misreadings, slips and speech disorders. The adherents to this school believe it is possible to apprehend the unconscious in action by closely following the client’s speech and reading their speech between the lines. Once the patient or analysand opens up to the psychoanalyst, they direct their latent wishes to the place of the therapist. Thereby, it becomes possible for the therapist to work on the same wishes that are impairing normal functionality.
Cognitive and behavioural
The underlying premise of this school of practice is what causes a person’s malady of the mind is not the objective life events but how they perceive these events, how they form thoughts, make connections, etc. In a nutshell, what encumbers the victims the most is the meaning they assign to their life events. It is the stake of cognitive behavioural therapists to demonstrate that everyone has the power to change how they think about their life events. Cognitive and behavioural psychotherapy aims to bring about this very change in the person.
Humanistic
Unlike psychoanalysis, the humanistic approach declines to found its premise on the existence of the unconscious, or for that matter, it declines to think of human subjects as an effect of flawed unconscious drives. Instead, it adopts a humanistic approach or a more interactive way to aid the patients in exploring their thoughts and emotions. Here, the therapists see the patients as responsible agents of their actions, not categorizing their actions as subconscious or unconscious.
Systemic
A systemic approach is different from all the hitherto mentioned approaches as this approach is recommended for group therapy settings instead of individuals, like couples, friends and family. The systemic approach views the individual as part of the bigger social order and assesses how the individual performs as part of that social fabric. So, this approach is more suitable for strengthening community bonds or restoring dysfunctional community links. The systemic approach appears to be extremely effective for combatting drug addiction.