Depth Psychology
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What Actually Makes Therapy Work
**What Actually Makes Therapy Work** Early in my career I kept having the same experience. I would learn a new approach, throw myself into it with genuine conviction, and find that it worked. Then I would move to another approach, bring the same conviction, and find that it worked too. CBT worked. Psychodynamic work worked.
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Why Depth Therapy Moves Slowly, and Why That Matters
Most people come to therapy wanting relief. That is not a criticism. It is a completely understandable response to pain. Something is wrong, something has been wrong for long enough, and the reasonable hope is that a skilled person can help identify what it is and how to address it. The same logic that leads
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Dreams In Therapy
Most people do not bring their dreams to therapy. It does not occur to them that they could, or they assume the therapist would not know what to do with one, or they have already decided that dreams are just noise, the brain cycling through the day’s debris, nothing worth examining. That assumption is understandable.
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Depth Work in a Brief-Care Culture
Most clinicians practice in systems shaped by speed. Something can be lost when the entire field begins to imagine therapy primarily as problem-solving.