At 2:21 PM -0500 3/2/06, Scott Lilienfeld wrote:
Paul: Right...good point and I certainly agree. I'm sure there's plenty of shaping going on in the therapeutic context. All good therapists pay attention to what works. Even Freud noted that insight alone is rarely if ever sufficient for clinical improvement; one needs also to "work through" (his terms) the underlying conflict. Perhaps this "working through" (often involving repeated exposure to unpleasant memories and stressful life situations) is actually the core therapeutic element in psychodynamic treatment. Still, my key point is that what most psychodynamic therapists probably view as largely incidental to treatment efficacy could (? - we of course don't know without dismantling studies) actually be the key therapeutic ingredient.
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