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Originally Posted by SarahSweden
Thanks for comforting words. Do you have an experience of your own from psychosyntesis therapy?
I agree on what you say that they don´t treat depression and anxiety in a formal way but they kind of still treat those conditions or handle with them in different ways as negative thinking, feeling low and such are present in therapy.
When it comes to suicidal thoughts I don´t know, I've mentioned those and she knows I still have some contact within mental health care and there are facilities to turn to if I get really unwell so perhaps she relies on that.
I guess I don´t want to question her too much around things like endings, the length of therapy as I´m afraid that will rise unneccesary thoughts and discussions. Soon it´s summer and then perhaps it'll be a natural break in therapy and we´ll then have some kind of evaluation. She has though as late as today said I made progress and that the process can take time so in that aspect she doesn´t seem to hesitate. Perhaps it´s just a feeling I have, perhaps there really is some kind of hesitation from her side.
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Yeah, I studied psychosynthesis a very very long time ago now but I really loved It’s ethos and how gentle and creative it was.
It is a shame that there hasn’t been much research in It’s uses or effectiveness but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not effective.
My experience of it is that it allows for things to emerge organically and allows for the space for these things to emerge that might not emerge with other therapies such as CBT that are apparently the gold standard of therapy, which is now being disproved. So I suppose what I am saying is that we can never really measure the effectiveness without asking the participants. It seems to me that this type of therapy is going much deeper than your other therapy and it is stirring up a lot of painful emotions, hence the crying and the grieving and perhaps you are both doing the work without necessarily addressing what the work is, maybe your other therapy was more solution focussed/ driven!