Insight Therapy Treatment

Insight therapy is the type of psychotherapy that is used to help treat people that have psychological disorders. The main overall goal of insight therapy is to help a person become more self-aware and understand their own feelings to help them better function in everyday life. There are three main ways that this type of therapy is used: psychoanalysis, client centered therapy, and gestalt therapy. Each method is a slightly different way of thinking, but they all seek to accomplish the same goal of helping the client.

Psychoanalysis tries to help a patient find their his feelings and emotions so that they can deal with them. The therapist tries to uncover unconscious thoughts that a person has so they can better understand themselves. One method that is often used to help find these hidden thoughts is free association. Free association often involves giving the patient a word or showing the patient a picture and asking for his or her immediate thoughts that come to mind. Then patient and the psychologist work together to try and uncover the hidden meanings of these thoughts. By doing this, the patient can try to find out what his or her problem is a work on correcting it so that they can live life better and happier by not focusing on the negative at all times.

Client centered therapy focuses on the patient's problem, but the psychologist helping the patient offers unconditional positive opinions for him or her. Using this method, the patient often feels more comfortable about him or herself, and is more willing to open up and discuss his or her flaws. By offering this positive opinion, the patient never feels like he or she is being judged, but instead is always right. After discovering the problems of the person seems to have, both the patient and the psychologist work together to try to change negative thoughts and behaviors.

Gestalt therapy emphasizes current day life in the wholeness of the personality. Most people have conflicting feelings, if this is a problem for a person, this method of psychotherapy tries to help balance these conflictions. By doing this, the psychologist tries to help the patient function better in everyday life. If a persons belief are in constant confliction, then the person can find themselves overwhelmed and confused and will often tend to seek out the negative, which is only harmful and damaging to a person's well-being.