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Old Jan 22, 2010, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by rainbow8 View Post
I'm trying to decide, if I see another T, what I want them to be like--what orientation. Is it psychodynamic Ts who are open to the "inner child" concept? I saw a couple of psychodynamic Ts years ago, but inner child never came up. How do you know if a T will "go deep", as Blue expressed it? Thanks.

what orentation supports the inner child concept do you mean like CBT, DBT EDMR stuff? Those kinds of things work on your thinking process around all kinds of things. There is no set therapy method that works solely on the inner child concept none of them are for one set problem area. I may be wrong but all therapy people here in the USA are pretty much taught the inner child concept in college and internship at least thats been so during my years of college and internship in different places, they teach that the inner child concept is that everyone has an inner child which is times when peoples reactions are reacting like a child would throwing temper tantrums, yelling, storming out of the room brooding and obcessing over things, instead of reacting like a adult does by listening and logically taking care of the problem. So you could probably walk into any mental health agency and tell which ever T you get that you want to talk about the inner child concept and they will discuss it with you and teach you how to think like an adult and react like an adult in what ever situations you are having a problem with.