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Originally Posted by Wawrzyn
My understanding of the way therapy works is that if you have a psychological problem that you cannot solve on your own you hire a paid professional, you share your problems with him or her, he or she helps you understand how to solve your problems, and then you move on with your life and hopefully apply what you learned in therapy. The therapy itself should last only a few months. But then you have people who, by their own admission, have been working with the same therapist for as many as 3-15 years. I believe that keeping a person in therapy for so many years not only says a lot about the curative capacity of the professional but also suggests a lack of ethics on their part.
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I say the duration of therapy depends on a lot of different variables, including the presenting problem(s) of the client and the therapeutic approach. Certain types of cognitive behavioural therapy are not designed to be long term. Psychodynamic therapy takes longer. Are there unethical therapists? Sure. However, it's impossible to put a time table on therapy actually takes.
Are all problems/symptoms treated with psychotherapy curable? I don't know, perhaps managed might be a better word, as other health care professionals do with other chronic illnesses.