There is a persistent narrative in psychotherapy that different modalities are in competition over first principles. On one side: Aaron Beck and CBT with a structured, present-focused, empirically oriented aproach. On the other: Sigmund Freud and the psychodynamic tradition which is interpretive, historically grounded, concerned with unconscious processes. The contrast is real. The tension is overstated. What’s usually presented as a deep theoretical divide is often just a di

By definition, psychotherapy is something like “the professional treatment of psychological problems by a licensed clinician.” That’s technically correct—and practically useless. From the patient’s vantage point, psychotherapy is bewilderingly heterogeneous. It can look like structured conversation, prolonged silence, guided breathing, tapping sequences, eye movements, drawing exercises, exposure to feared objects, or increasingly eclectic interventions that blur into perform

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