Type of Therapies

Type of Therapies

Psychotherapies differ greatly in concepts, methods, and techniques.

The classification of psychotherapies into psychodynamic, behaviour, and existential is based on the following parameters:

1. What is the cause, which has led to the problem?

2. How did the cause come into existence?

   

3. What is the chief method of treatment?

4. What is the nature of therapeutic relationship between a client and therapist?

Both the psychodynamic and the behaviour therapies assume that the therapist is capable of arriving at solutions to the client’s problems, in contrast to existential therapy.

5. What is the chief benefit to the client?

6. What is the duration of treatment