Um, okay...

[synapticjava]

So, I'm reading some of the 300 pages of reading I have due tuesday for Counseling Theories, and I just read about Person-centered therapy. WTF? It's a therapeutic style where the therapist basically provides no guidance, no explanation, no interpretation, and no diagnosis/treatment. Isn't that a lot like having a friend? Rogers was a dumbass.

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[amejisuto.livejournal.com]

Sheesh, I get more from talking to myself and imagining what Deanna Troi or Susan Silverman would say. What a waste of time and money? And you have to waste brain space learning that stuff? Weird.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Heeee....

Deanna--I am sensing a presence, Ame. :)

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Yep, we shore do. *rolls eyes*

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to figure my therapist out---what kind of therapy is it when the therapist tries to get you to just kinda "be okay" with feeling negative emotions/trauma/what not and isn't as concerned with replacing those feelings with something else?

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...almost every type of therapy has the goal of getting the client to be aware of and accept themselves. However, because yours isn't concerned about "replacing" the feelings, I'd lean towards exisentialist or behaviorist. Exisentialist therapy teaches that we only are - no past and no future, we just are. But behavior therapy (which has a lot of exisentialism sewn into it) teaches us to be aware of ourselves and accept ourselves and "that which we cannot change". If this helps you out at all. heh.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....that sounds like the kinds of things our therapists say.

Sometimes it's hard for me to stop being a grad student *g* I wanna go read up on the theories they use or try and figure out if they've written papers about us. Josh and I have had quite a few laughs making up fake names they could use for us in articles.

[chocgood84.livejournal.com]

Heehee.