Are You Considering Therapy - A. Grose (Karnac, 2011) WW

139 Pages·2011·1.2 MB·English

ARE YOU CONSIDERING
THERAPY?

ARE YOU CONSIDERING
THERAPY?

Anouchka Grose

First published in 2011 by
Karnac Books Ltd
118 Finchley Road
London NW3 5HT

Copyright © 2011 by Anouchka Grose

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ISBN-13: 978-1-85575-857-5

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
vii

INTRODUCTION
ix

CHAPTER ONE
What are the different types of therapy?
1
Qualifications
2
Counselling and psychotherapy
6
Art therapy
10
Behavioural therapy
12
Biodynamic therapy
17
Cognitive therapy
19
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
and cognitive analytic therapy (CAT)
23
Computerized CBT
30
Existential psychotherapy
32
Gestalt therapy
34
Humanistic counselling
37
Integrative psychotherapy
41
Person-centred psychotherapy
44
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
45

CONTENTS

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CONTENTS

Psychosynthesis
48
Systemic therapy
51
Brief therapies and life coaching
54
Brief therapy
55
Emotional brain training (EBT)
57
Hypnotherapy and hypno-analysis
60
Life coaching
63
Neurolinguistic programming
65
Psychoanalysis
69
Freudian psychoanalysis
75
Jungian analysis
81
Kleinian psychoanalysis and object relations
theory
85
Lacanian psychoanalysis
89
Relational psychoanalysis
93

CHAPTER TWO
Psychiatry versus psychology
97
Medication or conversation?
99
Therapy and psychosis
102
Which drugs?
105
Antipsychotics (or neuroleptics)
105
Antidepressants
107

CHAPTER THREE
Individuals, groups, couples, and children
109
Couples and families
109
Group therapy
111
Child psychology
113

CHAPTER FOUR
Finding a therapist
117
To pay or not to pay?
118
Finding a therapist independently
123

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anouchka Grose is a practising psychoanalyst and
member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and
Research, where she regularly gives lectures. She is
also the author of two novels, and a non-fiction book, No
More Silly Love Songs: A Realist’s Guide to Romance.

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INTRODUCTION

Advising someone to “get some therapy” is easily
done. But telling them how, where, and which sort is
far more difficult. Should they go via their doctor, fol-
low a friend’s recommendation, or try their luck on the
Internet? “Therapy” is a word that covers a multitude
of different practices. It may involve giving someone
a set of techniques to block out unwelcome thoughts,
or they may be invited to spend years exploring these
thoughts on a weekly, or even daily, basis. In between,
there are numerous other possibilities, some of which
might include massage, hypnosis, or even dancing.
If you’re in a difficult situation and have the idea that
it would help to go and speak to someone, you may
suddenly find yourself confronted by an array of impos-
sible choices and impenetrable terms. Should it mat-
ter to you whether a therapist describes themselves as
humanistic or integrative? Mightn’t it be better just to
know whether they are sympathetic and insightful?
If you’ve decided to “get some therapy”, the next step
may be trying to work out what that actually means.
This book sifts through the more readily available forms