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Dictionary of Psychotherapy

Insight-oriented psychotherapy (Brief therapy) 

Insight-oriented psychotherapy (Brief therapy) is a short-term dynamic psychotherapy, brief therapy for specific short-term difficulties such as emotional and interpersonal problems. It reconstructs the origins of a disorder in early life experience of the clients, seeks for unconscious factors related with the abnormal thinking, emotions, and behaviour. 

Aim 

Changes within 6-9 months, with sessions once a week. 

Starting treatment 

The therapists aim to identify indications and contraindications, the problems, realistic goals should be chosen. 

Subsequent sessions 

The therapists pay attention to the emotional intellectual content of the client's utterances, clients' non-verbal behaviour, avoidance of too complex problem areas, interpretations of events and behaviours, defence mechanisms as blocks, unconscious protection, alert to the development of transference and counter-transference. 

Ending treatment the therapists focus remain on these goals, a better understanding of the chosen problems and should be more confident about dealing with them. 

Follow-up appointments spaced over 2 or 3 months. 

Indications 

Low self-esteem, recurrent problems in forming intimate relationships. 

Contraindications include obsessional or hypochondriacal disorders, severe mood disorder, schizophrenia, and a personality disorder, especially one leading to acting out of problems. 

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Dynamic psychotherapy  

Indications for Dynamic psychotherapy  

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