Psychodynamic Counseling: Depression – 5 Reasons Why Psychodynamic Counseling Doesn’t Work
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Depression counseling, far from treating the condition satisfactorily, can actually make the depression worse. This type of treatment sprang from the mind of Freud, and is based on the idea that much of our behaviour is unconsciously motivated and comes from repressed childhood memories. This is now considered to be a dubious assumption.
The efficacy of Psychodynamic Counseling has a very poor performance record. This method puts forward the belief that people need ‘insight’ before they can change. In other words, you need to know why you’re depressed before anything can be done about it.
Sounds quite reasonable, except that this style of thinking can make a patient’s depression even worse. No depressive needs to be told to think in this fashion. They can do it perfectly well of their own volition! There are many problems with this type of counseling, but the main five are as follows;
1. The treatment is mainly focused on the past. Depressives do this as a matter of course. They love the past!
2. The principal idea is to Find The Reason Why. Very seldom is there a single reason for depression, indeed for any problem. Let’s assume you discover ‘The Reason.’ This discovery doesn’t chase away the depression, even if you know you’ve found the correct reason, and how would you know? This method is known as ‘psychological archaeology.’
3. Both 1 and 2 above encourage rumination, or our old friend, brooding. To encourage a depressive to go back in time to past injuries, arguments and problems only causes more emotional arousal, which is precisely what the depressive doesn’t need. All you’re doing is to give the patient a chance to wallow in worry and misery.
4. Counselors who offer this type of treatment don’t give the patient any direction, or if they do, it’s very little. And this is the way they’re trained. In fact, it’s counter to modern treatment guidelines.
5. The counseling is totally passive and has no fixed time limits. This is where you hear about people going to their psychiatrist for years. They both grow old together!
‘Person-Centred’ counseling shouldn’t be discounted entirely, but it certainly doesn’t work for depression. Some therapists in the United States have actually been sued for using this type of approach for depression. Any type of treatment that concentrates on the past is frowned upon, most definitely in the treatment of depression.
The times now are more enlightened, and people are being given skills and knowledge to help them with this condition. The alternative is to leave them on the outside looking in, waving in the wind
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