I think about this a lot, really. I feel like our basic model of therapy is entirely wrong, and treating it as a thing that individuals can do to fix themselves both ignores most of its benefits and limits the ability of the individual to actually change.https://twitter.com/GeniesLoki/status/1300736048432140291 …
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My therapist was a gestalt therapist and I later read Carl Rogers's "On Becoming a Person" in which he talks about how you can't really teach the patient anything and all that matters is forming a genuine connection and it was very clarifying for understanding why I hated it.
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My reading is mostly from the "therapy as skill-teaching" category while the therapists I've encountered were mostly of the "disorganised hmm-listening" category, so I wouldn't say therapy "is" any one thing. It was really confusing.
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Why do those have to be mutually exclusive? Does the professional transaction negate the possibility of a genuine connection (albeit one that exists in a bounded space)?
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How do you define a connection?
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on whether therapy helps at the individual level at all - I think it's much more useful to have a whole bunch of therapy skills in the water in a community than therapy is for individuals themselves.