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Wednesday, October 15. 2014

The triumph of CBT

The Triumph of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy


I enjoy Schneiderman's posts, but this one is too black-and-white. He was Psychoanalytically-trained, and so was I. I no longer practice classical Psychoanalysis but I do a lot of what I term "Psychoanalytically-informed supportive therapy" which is sort-of what CBT is.


CBT, DBT, whatever. CBT is no big deal. There are always new therapy fads with new names but they all have one of two goals: glueing together someone who has become unglued, or carefully unglueing somebody who is so over-glued that they cannot live. Or something like that.


That's an absurd oversimplification, I know.


Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 15:44 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thanks for the mention, Dr. Bliss. I agree with your assessment of my position, though I would point out that I was reporting on a story in The Economist, which in its turn was reporting on surveys and studies performed by the British National Health Service... and also the experience of patients. CBT has been around for some time now and has been taking over in America. Psychiatric institutions that used to base treatment models on psychoanalysis now want residents to be trained in CBT. For my part, as I argued in my book The Last Psychoanalyst, I do not believe that CBT and its offshoots are compatible with orthodox Freudian psychoanalysis, but that's a different debate.
#1 Stuart Schneiderman (Link) on 2014-10-15 16:54 (Reply)
Cheesh, live and learn, I thought CBT stood for cock and ball torture
#2 Capt. Craig on 2014-10-15 20:23 (Reply)

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