Therapy

The idea that the only truths are those with efficacy must be most true in therapy.

It doesn’t matter if the therapy is Freudian psychology, Witch Doctory, AcuEnergetics, Grandma’s Advice or Cognitive behavioural therapy, as long as it works for you then what was said in there must be true and also impossible to prove false.

People drag themselves off to therapy because they (or someone else) has identified a problem and success (for the patient) is the complete or partial removal of that problem.

However one person’s problem is another’s opportunity (generally the therapist’s). The treatment of the problem can result in changes in behaviour or, and this is much easier, a change in how one views the ‘problem’.

Most people that go into therapy are pretty marginal in their need for treatment – the true nutters that need complete re-engineering are rare. Most people, in reality, just need a yarn with an older, wiser, trusted and independent mentor that can gently point out how their lives can be a lot easier with a few tweaks to how things are perceived and to certain behaviours.