The classical analysts got one thing right: you cannot “cure” people by merely sympathising with them on their misfortune. Beware pity & Mitleid. But they got one thing wrong: you cannot “cure” people if you withdraw from them emotionally. The therapist has to be an incitement to them to achieve a higher state of harmony…
Freud quotes – how one becomes a psychoanalyst
“When I am asked how one can become a psychoanalyst, I answer, through the study of one’s own dreams.” (DP 76)
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…
Marcus Bowman PhD 