{"id":15297,"date":"2016-07-28T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/?p=15297"},"modified":"2023-03-09T17:31:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T17:31:37","slug":"psychotherapeutic-approaches-the-main-schools-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/psychotherapeutic-approaches-the-main-schools-of-thought.htm","title":{"rendered":"Psychotherapeutic Approaches – What are the Main Schools of Thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Andrea M. Darcy<\/span><\/p>\n

Since the end of the 19th<\/sup> Century, when Freud developed his ‘talking’ cure, psychotherapy<\/a> has become a burgeoning field in the Western world. In fact Wikipedia now lists over fifty kinds of psychotherapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But behind this overwhelming array are really only a handful of schools of thought, <\/strong>or psychotherapeutic approaches<\/em>, from which they derive.<\/p>\n

The below psychotherapeutic approaches are behind most talk therapies now offered in the UK (types influenced are listed below each section).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The different kinds of psychotherapeutic approaches popular in the UK<\/span><\/h2>\n

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy<\/h3>\n

Psychoanalytical psychotherapy<\/a> could be seen as the birth of modern day talk therapy. Its main face is that of Freud, often seen as the father of psychoanalysis, from which psychoanalytic psychotherapy<\/a> came.<\/p>\n

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy believes that most of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are things we don’t consciously control. Instead, they are hidden in our unconscious mind.<\/strong> In order to sort out the issues we are experiencing, the idea is we must delve into this unconscious. To this end psychoanalytical therapy uses things like free association, dream interpretation, and analytic transference<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n