Thoughts about psychotherapy:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/b...y-take-so-long
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As I learn more about how the human brain works and changes, I find myself wondering how in the world is talk therapy effective. The numbers just don’t add up. As I figure it, there are 168 hours in a week. Most people in individual psychotherapy meet once a week for an hour (which, of course is actually 45 - 50 minutes). That means a patient or client spends roughly one hour a week actively trying to change his/her brain and behavior with the remaining 167 hours spent in the real world struggling to escape from the deep grooves of complicated relational dynamics. That is .5% of engaged, neuroplastic change time with a therapist and 99.5% of time spent with the same life stressors that led them to therapy in the first place. These numbers just don’t speak to rapid change.
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