Psychotherapy in its Labyrinth
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https://doi.org/10.33898/rdp.v31i116.405Keywords:
psychotherapy models, therapeutic efficiencia, psychotherapy integration modelos de psicoterapia, eficiencia terapéutica, integración., psychotherapy models, therapeutic efficiencia, psychotherapy integration, psychotherapyAbstract
The article addresses the strengths and weakness of the current field of psychotherapy. Therefore, a historical journey is presented, which permits to analyze the evolution of the discipline as well as an analysis of the circumstances that favor and threaten its development. The identified strengths revolve around the demonstrated efficiency and the theoretical-technical versatility. The threat focuses on pseudo-scientific procedures and the excessive consumption of psychotropic drugs. The social recognition and dissemination that psychotherapy achieved throughout 100 years, ended up generating a highly fragmented territory, around 4 major theoretical approaches and several hundred of therapeutic approaches. This fragmentation is a source of confusion and the most significant obstacle to its development. Integration is the most reasonable and necessary way to overcome the limitations. A range of situations are described that illustrate principles of integration that have already been achieved, and three fundamental guidelines that can be followed in order to consolidate the path towards integration.
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