Which therapy to choose?

The 3 streams of psychotherapy

Embarking on psychological work/self-reflection requires a certain level of involvement. It is not always easy to know what we are getting into or to be calm about the path we are taking. In order to see things more clearly, here are some indications as to the different approaches that are used at the center so that you can feel free to decide what would be best suited to you. 

It exists three major and main directions recognized in psychology, as well as a multitude of new approaches that are developing around them. 

1. First of all L'psychoanalytic approach, founding mother of the clinical practice. It is a question here of working from the hypothesis of an unconscious which influences our different relationships in order to anchor ourselves as a subject in this world. The patient will be led to develop associative chains of ideas on his own to unravel some of his early patterns. This approach further calls upon our analytical abilities and creates links between the subject, a repressed affect and the representation of an event (for example). It allows you to progress in self-knowledge.
2. The second, the cognitive and behavioral therapy, more commonly called CBT, is primarily concerned with 3 dimensions in humans: their thoughts, their emotions and the behaviors that result from them. It is a dynamic approach, where patients and therapist get to work together, in a direct exchange punctuated by diagrams, exercises and practical questionnaires as well as tasks to be carried out between sessions. These are part of a specific and rigorous scientific protocol. They allow you to objectively assess symptoms or feelings.
3. L'systematic approach conceives it, not the individual alone but in connection with his environment. It integrates it into the group, as in a couple or even within a family, and then targets the internal processes of this group such as communication, links and shared symbols as well as our positioning within it.