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Psychotherapy - a 21st century approach
As much
a personal education as therapeutic. It's just
good to talk openly about oneself with a responsive,
disciplined and experienced other. Its dramatic, calming
and useful. And important changes may result.
Basically
the technique, the personality, and the setting of
the therapist can help a person grow, and overcome the weaknesses in
what is no longer or not yet adaptive .
A tricky
business. My own approach is to blend observant meditation,
spontaneous yoga/tai chi, and psychoanalysis,
staying interactive and conversational. “The
truth emerges from conversation among friends”, but the client is moving towards a personal belief and needs the opportunity at self discovery, not socialization.
Meditation
creates a realm of freedom in the mind. the addition
of yoga stirs up bodily states, which themselves are
emotional, and these can lead to memories and current
stresses. If the person has learned how to meditate,
they can back up to that place of freedom as the psychological
gets too intense.
Its
not a mechanical process, but flexible, responsive,
to the life of the person. We work on whatever is
in the way, from legal, financial, biological or educational,
of the person reaching their own ideals for a meaningful
life with their wonderful unfolding personal stories,
however terrible they seem.
The
goal is the increased health, love and maturity of
the person, with an increased ability to respond fully
to the world and its needs and opportunities, and
to the relationships encountered, inherited and created.
Its
also fun, despite the pain.
see Psychotherapy, a 21st century approachI've
written a draft paper, Philosophical
Psychotherapy
and
see the papers at personal
coaching
and
quoted from a a paper by one of my teachers, Erich
Fromm, Aspects
of the therapeutic process
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