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...shallow I wouldn't even be aware of my lack of depth if it weren't for the fact that my mother is a therapist and points it out to me. In fact, the only time I've been to a therapy session was when she brought me with her and my dad to talk about how their divorce was hurting my sister; when I got there, the shrink pulled out a column my mom had planted there that I had written for my college paper about being unable to feel anything, which deeply concerned my mom. A column that...
...just one issue?" she asked. I was already regretting this phone call. "One of the issues is your avoidance of conflict. You refuse to fight. You walk away. It would be interesting to see where that came from," she said. I suggested that it possibly came from having a therapist mom. Then she said something else that I said I agreed with, but sort of missed since I was typing an e-mail. I can safely guess it involved the words "sharing," "intimacy" and "relationship...
Finally, be willing to listen to what the other person has to say, and keep an open mind regarding his or her feelings and point of view. says J. Scott Hinkle, a family therapist in Greensboro, N.C.: "Tell this individual how much he or she really meant to you when you do get in touch and that you see the other side of the argument." That is what Blanke did. "I told my friend that I understood why she felt the way she did. But we didn't try to analyze it beyond that, and the anger basically dissolved...
Cognitive therapy is everything psychoanalysis isn't: simple, quick, practical, goal oriented. "There's this mystique about psychoanalysis," says Judith Beck, daughter of Aaron and herself a leading cognitive therapist. "Psychoanalysis is esoteric and creative and interesting, and the psychoanalyst holds himself up as the expert who interprets what the patient is saying and has all the answers. It's kind of the opposite in cognitive therapy." Cognitive therapists tend to follow the same basic script for each session, so the treatment is remarkably standardized. It's also remarkably effective; research shows that when it comes to treating depression, cognitive...
...telling that to an insurance company. Another reason cognitive therapy has been so successful--Judith Beck estimates that there are 5,000 cognitive therapists nationwide--is that it's the perfect therapy for the age of managed care: quick, cheap and backed by statistics. Classical Freudian psychoanalysis demands four or five sessions a week, and a session with a qualified psychoanalyst can easily run you $125, if not twice that amount. Few insurance companies will pay for a treatment that costs $30,000 a year and has hardly any clinical outcome studies to back it up. Insurers would rather...