[Icare dixit]

Do you have any experience with psychoanalysis? Would you be willing to try it, have you ever considered it? If so, or if not, why?

What about a more behavioural/behaviourist approach to psychotherapy: never mind the why or how, but what (works)?

I like how psychoanalysis focuses on psychodynamics, past experiences and responsibility more than is now the prevailing norm.

It's too easy to dismiss it because of outlandish, bizarrely delusional theories like that of the Oedipus complex and psychosexual stages, I think.

Behaviourism is great because it doesn't assume to much. In psychotherapy (from my limited experience with actual treatment), it's possible to rationalise behaviour in a million ways, all somewhat valid but the therapist is least likely to know which is most or actually valid.

It's almost a deception contest, as I see it.

[Fuzzybear]

Assumptions in psychotherapy are ......
Grrrrrr I'm too grrrr to say much more right now

[Gabyunbound]

I did psychodynamic therapy for a while -the guy was 'relational' as it's called, and put a lot (way too much if you ask me) stock into the hour to hour, minute to minute pt-T relationship.

Way too intense for me and my anxiety went souring. Unhelpful.

[Mouse Gruffalo]

I was in psychodynamic therapy for several years. But my symptoms worsened.