Long-term Therapy VS Short-term

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Recently, on one of the forums, a question was asked - why do we need long-term psychotherapy? There is hypnosis, NLP, dpdg, a few meetings - and the question is removed. You don't need to walk once a week for months or even years …

Despite its apparent simplicity, the question is interesting. Of course, everything depends on the issue, and, for example, you can make a responsible choice in one or several meetings. Colleagues spoke out, to the best of their strength and free time. For myself, I found a metaphor, here it is.

A man stopped a working chainsaw with his hands, blood, pain, shock.

It is possible to talk to him about the rules and techniques of work, safety precautions at the moment, but inhumane and poorly effective. It may bleed and it is important to treat the wounds first. This is how the same dpdg works, any short-term therapy. After that, the client leaves fully capable and with a certain experience.

In the future, he can, using the experience gained:

- never saw again;

- do not approach the trees;

- shy away from chainsaws, people with a saw, people who look like lumberjacks;

- shy away from people who sell saws, similar to saws;

- and also from everything that has a chain, buzzes or with teeth:)

If the client does not interfere with such behavior, he does not need long-term therapy. And if it interferes, then you need to figure it out.

Or here's one that my colleagues liked:

“If you want on the principle“he did something to me”, then 20 minutes by phone will be enough. not to get involved - not to think, not to worry, not to do anything, then the techniques, the shorter and more muddy - it is”.

“It is not a fact that after such a quick" disposal "the problem will not come up again in a similar situation. For a long time - this is to learn yourself, and not to run to the uncle."

“It is probably worth distinguishing between adaptive techniques, which teach you to run fast on crutches, command the parades of your cockroaches, and rehabilitation, when a person learns to do without crutches at all, and says goodbye to cockroaches for good (most often, with each cockroach personally:)”.

And a quote from the wonderful Odessa psychologist A. Mokhovikov, who, alas, this year passed away: Therapy is a concern, and you can only take care of something integral. If you water a houseplant, then you take care of the plant as a whole, and not It is important that the result is a holistic effect - the plant grows. In the same way, the psychotherapist takes care of either a specific person or a group. And in this sense, psychotherapy is a purely individual, unique project for each client, even in Unlike psychotherapists, psychotechnologists train one kind of skill, and the whole is not taken into account.”And, in conclusion, I want to say - long-term therapy is if it does not work out quickly.

It turns out quickly - so wonderful.