Dear and sweet and supportive (((Sky)))...., with all due respect for you and your many years of therapy,, and with respet of my own 12 years or so of therapy... I am aware of what CBT (and REBT) are. They are not what I am interested in persuing and have not helped me in the way I want. CBT did nothing for me; REBT was a bit more helpful at the time, but I want to do more, learn more, delve deeper. The behavioral therapie.... to me.... imo.... are about someone telling me how to think and ultimately about changing... "correcting..." faulty thinking and changing behavrior. The emphasis is on behavior that results from thinking. I want to go at it from the opposite end of the spectrum.

With analytical therapy, you don't choose 'topics' to discuss each session and you don't have homework. You arrive at your appointment feeling however you feel and you talk about that or whatever you feel like talking about. There is not something to solve or conguer in that session, just ideas and feelings to explore and delve into. Way into. Howeverf you feel and whatever associations you have about that are what you talk about. If you are lonely you talk about that, not about volunteering to solve it (stop the feeling, repress the feeling, deny the feeling). Instead, you head right toward it and explore it.

Anyway, I'm very very glad it works for you. I think that's wonderful! And I think you are a great person here.

But....it doesn't work for me. Somehow I am feeling like I need to apologize for wanting this.

I want to go deeper. I want to know how I think and why I do and where it comes from before any attempt to make changes; in fact, change occurs because of the understanding. It takes time. It it takes going deeper. It is a very wonderful experience to explore and discover. And the breakthroughs are wonderful to experience also; they can bring a calm and peacefulness that is amazing and can last for days the clarity settles in.

Different strokes for different folks. If we were all the same and had the same experiences and opinons and preferences we would only need one type of therapy. It would also be a very boring world.

Happy and peaceful therapy to all. May it be all you want it to be!