Re:Critiques of Schema Therapy

I hope that you will allow me to add this to the disscussion. I was very moved by two of your comments. First, I was very impressed by your candor about the general ineffectiveness of psychotherapy. I was badly hurt by psychotherapy. Therefore, I've accumulated a lot of knowledge about ineffective psychotherapy, what works and what doesn't. I'm urging you to publish this thread and distribute it widely among current psychotherapy patients, and anyone considering it.

Second, I'm moved by your comments about charismatic healers and teachers. I believe that when any difficult healing occurs it does with the help of energetic healing (charismatic healing). For years I avoided psychotherapy due to the destruction it had already caused in my life. I tried many alternative treatments, including energetic healing. This was among the most effective healing modalities for me. The healer urged me to seek psychotherapy, and that's why Jeff is my therapist today. However, I continue to use energetic healing in meditation.

Furthermore, I believe that the healing that has taken place in psychotherapy has been a direct result of my relationship with Jeff and his gift as a charismatic healer. Maybe, in the end, it will all come down to gifted phsycians and psychotherapist who manifest the ablity to heal. Maybe, when emotional suffering becomes too complex, scientist will be unable to quantify problems and prove therapuetic techniques. Maybe, in the last one hundred years we have been fooled into believing by the scientific and medical community that it all comes down to a single treatable cause and effect.

I maintain that healing has occurred for me due to multiple factors, not the least of which is the simple presense of a charismatic healer in my life. There's no other explanation for the huge tranformation that has occurred in me over the past few years. Doctor, teacher, guru, shaman--charismatic healer. Science often ignores what people in many cultures have known for thousands of years. There's a healing power that some people strongly manifest and use to transform other's lives.

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Please note that this is a forum for discussions by professionals, by Jim Pretzer, 01/08/02 Re:Please note that this is a forum for discussions by professionals, by Jeff's Patient, 01/09/02

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