Posted by Amelia_in_StPaul on June 18, 2009, at 15:14:17
In reply to Re: Two psychology boards? Or something? » Amelia_in_StPaul, posted by SLS on June 18, 2009, at 13:33:08
Thanks for your comment, Scott.
Of course, I have to admit that I am relatively new here, but every time I have been to the psychology board, I have noticed comments about therapists that reflect a psychodynamic approach is partly or entirely going on. IPT does port a lot from psychodynamic theory into its approach and practice. Both "purer" forms of psychodynamic theory and IPT deal with discussing the past (I'm being so simplistic here, forgive me) in order to uncover and work through patterns, so that new patterns can emerge. I like, and wish to discuss, CBT and DBT because it focuses on the here and now, and what a person can do to tolerate emotions, restructure thoughts so that they aren't so negative and etc., and focus on the present and future. As someone with PTSD, I have never found psychodynamic approaches, or IPT, to help one bit with coping in the here and now. I hear a lot of comments (I'm not saying here necessarily) from people in "talk therapy" that say to me "wow, this person is going through crises induced in therapy and unresolved in therapy--and I can see fallacies in thinking that are continuing her or his pain--I wish that person would try out CBT or DBT."
There are squishier boundaries in "talk therapy" between therapist and client, in the name of "transference." I think that can be quite damaging to fragile persons.
Ahhhh, sorry to rant, Scott.
Thanks for your comment.
> > No, not short term. Most people I know/talk to/have met as a patient and as a would-be therapist are in CBT, DBT, or some form of cognitive-behavioral therapy. Or, at least, are treated with an eclectic approach--a little bit of maybe existential modalities, a little bit of CBT, some mindfulness, a sprinkling of what they deem useful from psychoanalysis or psychodynamics (a surface interpretation of transference). But the board right now for psychology is heavily populated by people in some form of psychodynamic therapy, or by people invested in it as a useful approach.
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> > So I was thinking a board called "Psychodynamic" (which fits right in with the pyschobabble moniker, and one for cognitive-behavioral/DBT, understanding that that can mean eclecticism too (as could psychodynamic--eclecticism is a flexible thing).
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> I don't really hang out on the Psychology board that much. I hadn't realized that the majority of treatment protocols being used by people there were psychodynamic. I just thought that they were different varieties of interpersonal therapy (IPT). This is a bit of a revelation to me.
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> - Scott
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