(October 5, 2017 at 1:56 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: The most popular form of talk therapy today is called Cognitive Behavior Therapy. CBT is a very solution-oriented approach that teaches patients how to develop coping strategies to correct flawed interpretations of their environment or redirect ineffective thought patterns so they can respond more effectively to their circumstances.
For 'popular', read 'cheap'. It worked a real treat for me (not). The moment my 'counsellor' tried to twist things I was saying to fit her preconceived script, that was when I walked out.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'