[stopdog]

I see many people using the word heal here and was wondering if that is how others viewed it or if it is why people see a therapist.

I don't think I went into therapy using the term "healed". It is how I feel it has affected me from where I stand now. I absolutely feel more whole, more stable, more content than when I started this process. I don't use the word "cured", but "healed" works for me and how I perceive therapy's impact on my life.

[AmysJourney]

Yes, I do. I take therapy in the literal meaning of the word - healing and cure. I go to therapy because I know something is broken and I want it healed. I believe in the healing and I even believe in the cure. I look at my heart and soul the same way I look at a broken leg.. I need a cast, perhaps some crutches for a while and the bones will heal and become strong again. But there will always be the chip in the bone where it healed back together and it may cause me some pain every now and again. But one day I can walk without the crutches, one day I can walk or even run again.

SD, I answered before you put up the poll questions. I see you think of the word "healed" in terms of medical healing. I don't think most of us (at least not me) confine the word "healed" to that narrow definition. When you look up the word, it has a variety of connotations beyond the strict denotation of medical healing.

[stopdog]

Originally Posted by 1914sierra

SD, I answered before you put up the poll questions. I see you think of the word "healed" in terms of medical healing. I don't think most of us (at least not me) confine the word "healed" to that narrow definition. When you look up the word, it has a variety of connotations beyond the strict denotation of medical healing.

Not at all.The poll provides both options and other - it allows for multiple responses. The medical model is a separate part - or at least can be. Hence the option of other

yes therapy with this T is absolutely healing.

[HazelGirl]

Hmm...I think of it more as "changed" and "made whole" rather than "healed".

[Outcast_of_RGaol]

I see as a tool to healing...

[Ambra]

Not necessarily. I think it depends on the reason you start and what you need/want to achieve. I used the word "healing" in another post because that's what I'm there for at the moment. After that it might become a tool for self-improvement or better self knowledge. If I'll keep going.

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There has absolutely been healing for me as a direct result of therapy with current T. Agh I wanted to say more but I'm gonna be late for work gotta go!

I started therapy because I was convinced I was broken and wanted to be fixed but now I know it doesn't work like that at all. It is hard work and I believe the therapist is like a crutch but healing comes from within, humans and animals alike have a great capacity to self heal by liking their wounds are caring for themselves but we all need a little help and support along the way.

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[RTerroni]

Yes absolutely

[IndestructibleGirl]

Yes, healing is a good term for it. I don't know how to quantify it - imo, the reparative love given by the therapist allows me to travel through new feeling states and heal myself along the way. Bit by excruciating bit. Maybe like a sports coach guiding with skill and expertise? They can direct you but not actually do the work for you.

I voted both that I think of therapy as a way to heal, but also that I do not think that the medical model fits. I am using the word heal in a broader sense, perhaps.

[elliemay]

Healing but not physically, so yes and the medical model doesn't fit psychotherapy.

[stopdog]

And yet medical insurance is often used.

No, not anymore. I actually think of it more as a means to destroy.

[LadyShadow]

I use it to heal, something about talking to my T is a real release, I love it.

[tametc]

Originally Posted by stopdog

Not at all.The poll provides both options and other - it allows for multiple responses. The medical model is a separate part - or at least can be. Hence the option of other

Then I did see it the way you intended. I am in therapy to heal, and yet I don't equate it with the medical model. Thanks for this poll, SD.

[tametc]

Originally Posted by stopdog

And yet medical insurance is often used.

I see humans as being body, soul, and spirit. My definition of "soul" is mind, will, and emotions. I see "spirit" as what lives on after physical death. I think medical insurance is appropriate to use, because our society tends to see mind and emotions as brain-related, which is a part of our physical selves.

My particular worldview is Judeo-Christian, and I see a correlation with the Old Testament temple, or tabernacle. The body (outer court), the soul (holy place), and the spirit (the holy of holies, where the presence of God resided).

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i do think therapy is a means to healing but only one of many. as for the medical model sure if by that you mean the client goes for treatment to be healed. i think that is the idea in theory but it doesn't always happen in practice.

a lot of therapy is very unstructured and they don't tell you how to "do therapy" so i'm not sure how that is supposed to help one heal if one doesn't just happen upon something that works. i think there needs to be more instruction as to how the process works and what the role of the T is and what the client is supposed to do. just talking randomly about my problems with an accepting person has not done anything for me.