Understanding Psycho Therapy

Psycho therapy is a treatment process that deals with the emotional and mental side of a problem. These psychological problems do not crop up overnight and take many years to build up. The therapy works by building up a relationship of trust between the patient and the therapist. The process helps the patient by identifying and understanding their strong and weak points and by helping them to cope with their problems better. The treatment of psycho therapy could take months and, at times, even years.

The therapy can be conducted in groups, in twos, or individually. This may depend on how severe the symptoms are or the financial position of the patients. Psycho therapy sessions are usually held for an hour once a week.

Psycho therapy is used to treat a number of problems, which include-

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Emotional crises
• Marital problems
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Personality disorders
• Alcoholism
• Addiction
• Bipolar disorder treated along with drugs
• Schizophrenia treated along with drugs

These are not exhaustive and include many other problems and disorders. Participating in psycho therapy sessions allows patients to look at and understand their problems from a different perspective. It allows the patients, among others, to

•  Understand themselves and their goals better
• Overcome depression, anxiety and other disorders
• Find solutions to their inter-personal relationships

Many do not find psycho therapy pleasant, as it brings them in touch with their unpleasant experiences. Some find the results not to their liking, as they expected different outcomes from their sessions.

Types Of Psycho Therapy

There are many ways to approach psycho therapy . Certain approaches look to replace adverse behaviors with the desirable ones. This therapy, known as behavior therapy, helps in making patients understand how they can bring about changes in their feelings by changing their behavior patterns.

Cognitive therapy focuses on how the way we think affects the way we emotionally feel. This form of therapy treatment focuses on our current thinking and behavior patterns. Depression could be caused by our adverse thought patterns and beliefs. The viewpoint of the patient, and hence the emotional state, may change for the better if these patterns are corrected through treatment.  

Life can never be looked at in absolute terms, such as black and white. However, those suffering from depression often do so, and distort events in their lives as being negative and adversely affecting them.

Practitioners of psycho therapy often look at symptoms in the case of depression from the perspective of the patient family. They look for patterns in the family that could contribute to the patient mental disorder. In this case a family therapy session is in order, where the discussions involve the patient and his or her family.

Certain disorders could be because of interpersonal relations. The patient may not be able to express emotions in a positive way. This therapy focuses on the relationships patients have with their peers and family members and how they perceive themselves.

Psycho therapy may involve the use of behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and interpersonal therapy together to solve problems.

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