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Old Dec 07, 2010, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Melbadaze View Post
I think iys incorrect to say some therapists take longer be cause of their technique...undertones of "dragging it out" haging around with that hinking...î guess one could see it another way and sa those with indepth training and knowledge take the time it takes working at really underpinning recovery and a quick recovery lacks any real underpinning?
Not at all sure I agree with this. I think a very skilled healer could achieve a lot of progress towards "recovery" in a much shorter time than is usually believed. Do "interminable" therapies lasting years and years and years achieve a lot of long-lasting success? I think even Freud and his coworkers recognized the failures of such therapies that never seemed to end.

I read about a London anorexia therapist many years ago whose therapies lasted some weeks -- and in a survey his patients were the only ones who declared themselves to have been "cured". And from the description of the therapy I could see why. His insight and technique, to the extent that I could understand it, made the difference, because they made what he did in therapy different.
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