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Old Aug 17, 2013, 11:34 AM
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Do you learn any coping mechanism in psychodynamic therapy? I mean, what in psychodynamic therapy is it that actually helps with the anxiety and the depression? The talking itself?
My T mixed in aspects of cognitive therapy to help encourage functional behaviors during my depression, but within the context of psychodynamic therapy to explore and repair through empathy the underlying causes of my lifelong depression. But he never used worksheets and that sort of thing--just cognitive principles.