People who took a 6 week course of CBT experienced a 25% reduction in farting. Just a joke, but CBT does seem to be psychiatry’s version of the travelling medicine man’s miracle elixir.
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The answer to the question of why is it seemingly impossible to find a psychologist these days that uses paradigms such as Gestalt theory or psychoanalysis can be traced back to the 1960’s when psychology was increasingly questioned as a science by insurance companies.Thus case studies and anecdotal evidence would no longer suffice. Psychological methodology was invented along with Beck’s CBT (which was just a tweak to Ellis’ REBT). CBT, using a triad of thoughts/feelings/behaviors, lent itself to empirical data over a relatively short amount of time (typically 12 weeks). Consequently, insurance would cover it.
I’m not saying that CBT isn’t an effective psychological paradigm, but some people may benefit more with Gestalt theory or psychoanalysis, and it’s unfortunate that they’re not an option.
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My intellectual warning light goes off when anything is touted as helping a 101 different things.whether it be psychiatric or not.Sometimes crap really does happen and dismissing how you feel as just down to ‘faulty thinking’ is simplistic .
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CBT is a wonderful therapy. I think insurance companies also prefer it because it begins with a set end in mind whereas other types of therapies can potentially go on forever.
However it is very structured which isn’t good for everyone. I benefited from it greatly but now have been in psychotherapy for a while and I like how I decide what we talk about each session and I can really delve into whatever I want. It is good for processing…DBT is very similar to CBT in that it is highly structured. Issues with highly structured things is that they were designed with a general population in mind, rather than the individual. That’s the only way such organization is possible. Psychoanalysis works around the individual.
But I wouldn’t recommend it for immediate coping skills, psychoanalysis is all about getting to know and understand yourself and how things in your life have impacted you which can take however long you need, whereas CBT and DBT target problem thoughts and behaviors and then work to fix them within a set amount of time.
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would dismissing it as just down to ‘faulty wiring’ be of much solace here?
Maybe not. For me it’s the way very real experiences can be dismissed/trivialised. Nobody likes being invalidated especially by someone who knows ■■■■ all about you, and is too lazy or intellectually incompetent to find out.
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CBT is ridiculous as it doesn’t remove the underlying problem.
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No form of therapy can remove the underlying problem…they can only teach you to function around it and despite it, as well as understand it better so you know what to do about it. Only medication can “remove” symptoms, so long as you stay on it.
Research on true psychoanalysis has not proven it to be very effective as a therapeutic approach. It is also extremely costly. It should definitely not be something most people are offered through insurance or public health care, as that would be a huge waste of money.
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Hey @anon9798425 Hope you are doing well!!! I was wondering why I don’t see you much
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Thanks! 
I have a lot of personal stuff going on. Things have taken a turn for the worse in my life right now. But when things calm down and I feel better, I will be more active here again. How are you doing, sleepy? 
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awww =( so sorry to hear. If I can be any help, please message me!!!
I am alright, need to be more grateful for the positive things I guess. Have a dark cloud over my head of negativity 
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