HOW DOES PSYCHOTHERAPY WORK?

        This is the time to de-mystify the mysterious: the mechanics of therapy.  It’s impossible to do justice to a process as artful, complex, and multi-dimensional as psychotherapy, but dissecting it into the following may make it clearer.  The main components of therapy are:

  1. Therapeutic alliance
  2. Goals of therapy
  3. Stages of therapy
  4. Overarching principles of therapy
  5. General tools of therapy, and
  6. Types of therapy.

I will address each of these on the following pages, beginning with the Therapeutic Alliance.

 

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