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ECHOES said:
Now I feel like an idiot. I wanted psychoanalytic psychotherapy. When she said she did psychodynamic psychotherapy, I misunderstood.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">ECHOES, hold your horses. I think you're OK!

"Psychodynamic psychotherapy" is the modern version of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. It involves transference, looking into your past, the whole shebang. In contrast to classic Freudian psychoanalysis, however, it is usually shorter term, does not necessarily meet several times a week, the client sits rather than lies down, and the therapist is usually seated facing the client, rather than the analyst being hidden from view behind the client as the client lies on a couch. But other than that, there are a number of similarities. Your therapist may list that she has several influences and orientations on her description. This is called an "eclectic" approach. Ask her if she can emphasize the psychodynamic approach in her plan with you, rather than CBT, since apparently she is versed in both (good for her!).

My therapist is also eclectic. He is humanist/psychodynamic/gestalt and has been known to sneak in a little CBT here and there. Plus, he does EMDR. It's the best of all those worlds in the MIX that works for me.

Good luck,
sunny