The human being feels, thinks and acts, so that both his happiness and his pain are conditioned by the interaction of such functions, and of these with their natural and social environment. Psychotherapy, which combats the psychological pain of the individual and its consequences, can be defined as the art of healing with the word. According to the central theme of this conversation arose different types of psychotherapy. If the talk focuses on the emotional aspects of the subject, the method is called psychoanalysis or psychodynamic. If it emphasizes the intellectual aspects, is called cognitive.
If specializes in behavior, behavioral called. Many psychotherapists, try however, to practice a personal and intuitive, eclectic, synthesis of these three approaches, according to each patient and each time. It is the wisest. After all, feel, think and Act are, in practice, a single unified process. But how effective is psychotherapy? Does it always work? Are they measurable effects? Many people doubt it, and others argue otherwise with questionable statistics. In reality, the problem is extremely complex, the paciente-psicoterapeuta relationship is intimate and secret by definition and, as in all human loop, the factors involved are numerous. Dogmatic current scientism makes believe many people are methods that heal or should cure, in the same sense scientist who supposedly heal the drugs.
However, it is not absolutely true that drugs heal by themselves, as evidenced by its intrinsic percentage of failures, undesirable effects and the fact that the best of them are simply limited to favour organic processes, i.e. own self-healing capacity of the organism. Without speaking already of the decisive role of relationship life and, of course, the type and severity of each disease. Same thing happens in psychotherapy. Is a complex link where involved at least: 1) the expertise of the therapist, 2) maturity ((staff, 3) the method used, 4) the degree of confidence of the patient, 5) their degree of motivation to heal; ((6) the mutual emotional bond (e.g., feelings of empathy, affection, respect, patience, consolation, etc.