What happens in psychotherapy?
Through interaction with the therapist, clients explore the issues that brought them to therapy. Conversations focus on the client, their perceptions and beliefs about themselves, the impact of their childhood on the present and the negative patterns that continue to repeat themselves. Clients often experience a significant shift in their perspective about life. Feelings of helplessness diminish and bring about growth and change. This is because an increased awareness usually leads to changed thought patterns, changed emotional reactions, and then changed behaviors. Specific possible benefits include: decreased stress, anxiety, or depression; more satisfying relationships with others; increased hope that you can effectively navigate stressful situations in the future; satisfaction with yourself that you have “finally addressed the problem;” or relief that your current problem is not going to keep you feeling bad for very long.
The mental image we all have about therapy is true! Patients lie on couches and talk. You should say everything that comes to mind. This creates an atmosphere in which aspects of the mind emerge which would not normally appear. The analyst examines patterns of behaviour, identified subjects patients find it hard to talk about, and looks at the rapport which is developed between therapist and patient. The therapist helps the patient to elucidate their feelings by working with them to refine, correct, reject and add further thoughts and feelings to the debate. One notable source says during the years that analysis take place, the patient wrestles with the insights, going over them again and again and experiencing them in daily life, in their fantasies and in their dreams Patient and analyst join in their efforts to modify crippling life patterns and remove incapacitating symptoms. Eventually, the patients life changes in deep and abiding ways. Who is psychotherapy for? Psychotherapists s
