WHAT ABOUT THERAPY SHOULD YOU KNOW?

In Morpheus (#32) I talked about the fundamental differences between therapy and coaching. Most of that material is in your ACMC manual, and so should be no surprise. Now for a slightly different question.

“What about therapy should you know?”

“And ultimately, what is therapy anyway?”

First and foremost, therapy is about healing. And if it is about healing, that implies there is a hurt, a wound, and/or a trauma which needs healing. The metaphor comes from medicine, which is where psychotherapy began. The idea at the turn of the 20 th century was that if a person is not normal, and not okay, and we can’t find any physical cause, then the hurt must be psychological. Freud, as a medical doctor, first worked with hysteria and could not find a physical, external cause. This gave birth to psychiatry and then to psychotherapy.