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May 13, 2010, 01:02 PM
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Member Since: Jan 2007
Location: U.S.
Posts: 10,383
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Originally Posted by imapatient
One current T is behavior oriented and thinks I should get a CBT T
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So the behavior guy didn't do cognitive work as well? It seems not so many Ts are only behaviorist these days. (I find a behaviorist approach quite useful on myself. I have used it for years as "self-help", a long time before I went to see a therapist.)
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It seems to me that CBT ... can help with a major problem I have--distorted thinking.
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This sounds like a huge plus. If you don't address the distorted thinking with CBT, would you address it in some other way? I think all types of therapy would be more effective if the client had undistorted thinking. So it could be that you could work on the distorted thinking issue with a CBT therapist and then be very ready to work on most any other issue subsequently with the same therapist or a different one with a different orientation.
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it seems like it must be limited in scope, i.e. that there are other therapy needs that it isn't well-suited to or does not address
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What do you think those other therapy needs are? I am extremely analytic and what some people consider an overly rational thinker. I have found the approach in my therapy (largely humanistic) to be really good for someone like me, who needed to learn to detect that I was feeling something, to identify what I was feeling (am I angry at someone? am I sad right now? am I disappointed? am I hurt?  ) , to get in touch with my true self, to find "my voice,"--all the cliches.  I am not sure if CBT could have helped me with those problems.
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I can't imagine it being enough; good to learn and go through, but not the only thing I need.
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Maybe you could make a list of your needs in therapy and put down whether you think CBT could help with that need or not, then show your list to the CBT therapist you have seen and ask if he agrees. That way you can get a practitioner's expert opinion.
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