I like this. It's arguable as heck, I understand and I do not have the professional degrees with which to back up anything whatsoever but it's always made an awful lot of sense. Yes, and as a disclaimer there are many professional models of therapy which of course work beautifully in various paths of healing.
Some stats caught my interest in Psych 101 of all places and I just never forgot them, even if it's probably inexact after all these years. The discussion was the success rate of various approaches in schools of psych- Skinnerian, Behaviourist, Freudian, etc. I won't quote the exact stats because I'll get them wrong and someone will call me on it but suffice to say that the success rates for both Freudian and Skinnerian were unsurprisingly abysmal ( this was a really long time ago, so please give me a break here on the ancientness of the examples- it's kind of besides the point, really ) being in the high 30 percentiles somewhere. The Humanistic approach had the highest success rate at the time ( please know I don't even know if this exists anymore, it was/is I suppose a school of thought on healing ) in the high 70th percentile. The same exact success rate was also shown by those who had access to exactly the sources of what I just read above, which I can't put any better and would sound silly attempting to do so. It was just incredibly interesting and thought provoking to read this, since although my T is a trained, qualified professional he actually came to this profession after a career as a Lutheran minister. I've posted earlier in this thread of a FEW T's I could do without-annoyingly and hilariously, and have often wondered about this man's healing gifts. They are considerable, to be sure.
I'm not knocking anyone's approaches-what works for them, works and everyone is different, There's just 'something' here, which I'm not qualified to comment on beyond pointing to those particular statistics, to my own experience, to some truly excreable T's I've had, mine now and say 'hmmmmm', while tapping my chin and pretending to look wise. :)
Some stats caught my interest in Psych 101 of all places and I just never forgot them, even if it's probably inexact after all these years. The discussion was the success rate of various approaches in schools of psych- Skinnerian, Behaviourist, Freudian, etc. I won't quote the exact stats because I'll get them wrong and someone will call me on it but suffice to say that the success rates for both Freudian and Skinnerian were unsurprisingly abysmal ( this was a really long time ago, so please give me a break here on the ancientness of the examples- it's kind of besides the point, really ) being in the high 30 percentiles somewhere. The Humanistic approach had the highest success rate at the time ( please know I don't even know if this exists anymore, it was/is I suppose a school of thought on healing ) in the high 70th percentile. The same exact success rate was also shown by those who had access to exactly the sources of what I just read above, which I can't put any better and would sound silly attempting to do so. It was just incredibly interesting and thought provoking to read this, since although my T is a trained, qualified professional he actually came to this profession after a career as a Lutheran minister. I've posted earlier in this thread of a FEW T's I could do without-annoyingly and hilariously, and have often wondered about this man's healing gifts. They are considerable, to be sure.
I'm not knocking anyone's approaches-what works for them, works and everyone is different, There's just 'something' here, which I'm not qualified to comment on beyond pointing to those particular statistics, to my own experience, to some truly excreable T's I've had, mine now and say 'hmmmmm', while tapping my chin and pretending to look wise. :)
