Psychotherapy: the facts and myths

Is the therapy costs a fortune and takes all eternity?Is everything still boils down to the fact that parents are guilty? And why go to therapy when you can take antidepressants?. With these (and other) myths about psychotherapy confronts Philip Perry, a British psychotherapist with 12 years of practice. Europeans have a suspicious attitude to psychotherapy. In contrast to Americans who fully enjoy its benefits, we prefer to treat this profession with caution, cultivating the belief that the best way to overcome the trauma is to maintain stoic calm. Yet most people who have decided to take advantage of this form of assistance, says of her with unusual enthusiasm. Philippa Perry first underwent treatment at the age of twenty-odd years to - as she says - "great hostility that she felt for many people." For 12 years, working herself as a psychotherapist. For us, says 10 of myths that exist about psychotherapy. * It's all parents' fault Although this sounds like a great simplification, to say that there is some truth. Each of us learns to communicate with others through a relationship with her first tutor. If the keeper was insensitive, abuse of power or was in depression, it is likely that in later life appear in our psychological problems. If a parent can not - or not trying - to understand your child, it is developing mechanisms that allow it to survive. Sometimes, they may affect his views in later life. But the blame for everything on a lot of parents did not understand: we know that most of them try as she could, even if they sometimes commit serious errors. If you have difficulty in communicating with others, the therapy will help us realize some mechanisms - so that we can consciously shape their responses. Therapy is largely on raising awareness - and to understand their past in this very helpful. * Talking about yourself is a sign of immodesty Talking about yourself can be a sign of immodesty, but it certainly is not an attempt to understand it myself - that's the difference. If it happens to us that we respond to something, rather than to think about it, we have a problem with the projection or transfer. Projection occurs when, instead of the second person to make a "clean" relationship, part of the design on it's own personality - and this is what we refer to these projections, contact. In turn, the transfer occurs when we make unconscious assumptions about the other person on the basis of the experience we had with other people in the past. Of course, our experiences always have some impact on our expectations - but when we get through this very flexible, and our assumptions are a burden, the situation is getting complicated. If we become more aware of their projections, there is less chance that we will design your "shadow" (that is inapplicable page itself) on the other. Very often we see ourselves as the good ones, and others as the bad - it's worth, we were well aware that such thinking, often design their faults to others. Psychotherapy helps us to accept their fears, uncertainty and aggressive impulses - so that we do not block.