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Category: What is Psychoanalytic Therapy?

An extended essay on the place of psychoanalytic therapy in the broader contemporary world of psychotherapy. In eleven parts.

Posted on January 24, 2021July 22, 2022 by Marcus Bowman PhD

What is Psychoanalytic Therapy? – Part 11: Beware of Labels

Psychoanalytic therapy and CBT are the two most important traditions within psychotherapy. But even here, because labels can be so misleading in this field, in trying to draw distinctions within it, considerable caution is required. Contemporary CBT is more nuanced than old-style behaviourist psychology, and over time it has also, in spite of itself, come…

Posted on January 23, 2021July 22, 2022 by Marcus Bowman PhD

What is Psychoanalytic Therapy? – Part 10: Psychoanalytic Therapy & CBT

What psychoanalytic therapy and all these other related therapies do need to be distinguished from however are those forms of psychotherapy and counselling that focus less on treating the person as a whole, and on the conflicts between his emotions within him, and more on his different symptoms in isolation, with the aim of treating…

Posted on January 21, 2021July 22, 2022 by Marcus Bowman PhD

What is Psychoanalytic Therapy? – Part 9: Psychotherapy & The Question of Meaning

All of us, whether we are therapy patients or not, have to resolve the question of what is the meaning we are going to give to each day of our lives, and to the rest of our lives. We have to resolve it even if we do so by trying to evade it and just…

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