Psychology is not what it used to be. Through countless studies over the years, psychology has buried all doubts about its scientific validity, and which any psychologist or patient can confirm.
Today’s psychology has set aside labels and is acting more holistically. If you think you need help coping with life lightly, without the old backpacks of guilt, sadness or resentment, let the new psychology reach you.
- Not to mention scientific rigor.
- New psychological therapies are not primarily aimed at curing a mental disorder.
- Psychological treatment is becoming more eclectic and tries to give each patient the resources they need to stop their problem from being a negative trait of great importance.
- Seeking strength and awakening their spirituality.
Many times, it is not a question of eliminating problems, but of strengthening our qualities to face reality. The more obsessed we are with the fact that something is wrong and that we have to change immediately, the more anxious and fragile we will feel.
Psychoanalytic therapy has worked well in the patient-therapist relationship; behaviorism provides us with strategies to practice behaviors and the cognitive model answers the question: why do we treat information in a certain way and why do we suffer our way of thinking?
“I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will be achieved when the physical and the psychological, the objective and the subjective are truly united. “
-Ivan Pavlov-
All these psychology movements mentioned above, as well as others of lesser impact, but of the same importance (existential psychology, Gestalt, systemic model, etc. ), offer us very useful tools for successful therapy.
There are many specific problems that need to be solved by a certain psychological therapy, such as sleep problems, specific phobias, panic, etc. , however, most people go to therapy in search of something: feeling better, ending discomfort, sadly, finding an existential perspective that offers a happier life.
“Only those who have given up their dreams feel guilty. “
-Jacques Lacan-
To do this, we can integrate the tools of classical movements into psychology with certain aspects of current therapies such as values, the relationship with our thoughts and feelings as a whole that we must not change, but accept; in addition to the reconception of human suffering, with some references to Eastern philosophies.
Feeling good is not an imposition, understand that you can move forward and generate positive feelings at every step, in reality the new psychological therapies seek to put the patient in contact with all their emotions and thoughts, to change the way they work in their life. .
If we look at our thoughts and feelings, as an external observer, we will realize that everyone is doing their job, they are part of our nature: we feel good when we live fully in the present moment, without repenting or wanting anything different.
“Education is what survives when you forget what you’ve learned. “
-B. F. Skinner-
Then we realized that life is not a struggle and that everything fits. Life goes smoothly when what we do is aligned with what we believe and our scale of priorities. The new psychology tries to change the approach so that people can identify and use their own strengths, so that they can somehow cope with their difficulties.