Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Benefits of Psychotherapy

9/18/12.

Sam Goldstein, Ph.D.:

"At some point in our cultural history, the relationship of one person helping another evolved to a point at which one person was officially designated as a helper. Helpers developed particular expertise, whether it be in fixing a broken wagon wheel, tracking game, healing illness, offering spiritual or emotional guidance. In the latter case the mental health helper was likely an individual particularly blessed or gifted in his or her ability to assist others through trying times. Reliable research demonstrates that psychotherapy, or the guidance offered by mental health professionals, is neither unproven nor a luxury, but in fact a viable, empirically supported intervention..."

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/raising-resilient-children/201209/the-benefits-psychotherapy

1 comment:

adult psychology said...

we all need to be looked by a psychiatrist so we would know how to control ourselves specially when it comes to emotion..we suppress our feelings and it would make us sick cause we cannot let go on what we feel..so we need some guidance from a psychiatrist