2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Personal psychotherapy in general and gestalt therapy, in particular, it is subdivided into short-term and long-term.
This division is made on the basis of its duration (number of meetings) and the associated process and quality of personal change.
Short-term psychotherapy is considered a course of individual sessions with a psychotherapist lasting from 10 to 30 meetings.
This type of psychotherapeutic work, as a rule, is aimed at solving a specific task. The first meetings are usually devoted to formulating the goal that the client wants to achieve. This is followed by meetings in which the current topic is investigated in detail, and suitable solutions are sought and implemented. The last meetings are devoted to summing up and analyzing the work done.
Long-term psychotherapy it is considered regular work with a psychotherapist from 50 or more sessions, which takes at least a year of weekly meetings in duration.
With this type of therapeutic interaction, the most profound changes occur in a person's personality. We can say that a person begins to change on a personal level (ways of behavior, communication, habits, emotional manifestation, etc.). And these changes are the most stable.
"The goal of Gestalt Individual Therapy is to help a person get rid of internal psychological obstacles to being satisfied with their own life, work and relationships, and being able to fully enjoy work and play." *
It happens that a person does not immediately succeed in recognizing the fact that the help of a specialist psychotherapist is necessary for him and will be useful, since, according to "generally accepted standards," life can proceed and look quite well.
And it takes sensitivity to oneself to notice, and some courage to admit that, despite the outward well-being, something "is not right" in life.
Here are some situations in which long-term psychotherapy is appropriate and helpful:
- “A materially successful person does not enjoy and cannot enjoy the fruits of his activity and his achievements. - If there is a beloved spouse or partner, a person is not satisfied with the quality of relationships. - It is incredibly difficult for a person to decide what he wants in life, he experiences difficulties with self-determination, does not understand what he likes and what he wants. - A person is haunted by unreasonable anxiety about his future, even though everything is fine. - Personal or professional life is not going well, despite the obvious presence of natural data or the necessary talents. *
It is characteristic that such situations are often accompanied by depressive states, apathy, indifference, internal discontent, as well as psychosomatic diseases.
The human psyche is designed in such a way that, on the whole, it negatively perceives changes and tends to "conserve" - the situation, behavior, habits.
Therefore, in order to understand the situation in our natural rhythm, without artificially created stresses and shocks, which our life is already full of, to find the reasons for our unhappiness and discontent, to discover patterns of our behavior and perceptions that lead to an unsatisfying life, to determine appropriate vectors and ways for a new movement, to introduce them, and then to assimilate and analyze the results obtained, it takes a lot of time.
This inner growth occurs gradually, in its natural rhythm, without artificially created stresses and shocks, which are already full of modern life.
Long-term psychotherapy is similar to natural, natural development, in which a working alliance with a psychotherapist creates conditions that are positive for a person to change and "develop".
This is a significant reason why from year to year among people who seek support from specialists related to personal changes (psychology, coaching, trainings, psychotherapy), the number of requests for long-term individual psychotherapy is growing.
In the process long-term gestalt psychotherapy a person gradually realizes who he is, what his potential is in various spheres of life, as well as how he interacts with the world around him and what this interaction can be so that his personal satisfaction with his life is the most complete.
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