The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Psychoretic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy is not a quick fix; it will take an abundant amount of sessions. With this remedial process they would be looking into your past, specifically your childhood. Therapists would be looking for patterns and behavior that can be related to your adult life. This type of treatment is a very successful, and an enduring process, it’s long lasting. For example, a woman is late to almost everything and is trying her best to stop this. With this type of session, the therapist finds out that her parents forgot her once for a long period of time, which made her vulnerable, frightened, and anxious. The psychologist explains how this is in relation to why she is late all the time, and now the woman steadily realizes these helpless needs and is now over this problem for good. An advantage to this psychotherapy is the trust that is formed between the two individuals. You get to know your psychologist, to the point where you’re comfortable with them, which is the point of this psychotherapy. People who tend to seek out their true selves, or are curious about how they are, while getting relief, benefit from this type of treatment. Another advantage is that you get to understand your true self and have an insight on self-awareness and self-knowledge.

Client centered therapies or person-centered therapies are more involved in the conscious way of treatment. Carl Rogers, a psychologist in the 1940’s-50’s, thought it would be more beneficial to the client to explore their conscious feelings and thoughts on their own. An advantage is that this type of therapy is non-directive. It helps the client fix their own problem without having guidance from the psychologist. The therapist isn’t “figuring them out” or giving them a diagnosis ...

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...rapy. It’s known that our thoughts are the reason of how we live. An advantage to this type of psychotherapy is it reshapes the client’s way of thinking and overall personality to be more positive and calm. This type of psychotherapy can be medically helpful instead of using a “talking it out” approach. Another advantage is that it helps the client practice to listen to positive thoughts instead of negative, since the session would only be brief and short-term. For example, a woman seeks help because her confidence is low, the psychologist and the client would identify the thought “I’m ugly and worthless”. With this psychotherapy, the psychologist would make the client think about positive viewpoints about themselves. Thus, changing the woman’s opinion about herself and becoming more confident. If you smile, just for a little while, you will feel happiness and joy.