The Science and Art of Psychotherapy: Insider's Guide

Victoria Lemle Beckner, Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, discusses the different approaches to psychotherapy and how research informs clinical practice to help patients achieve lasting improvement. Recorded on 03/13/2012. [5/2012] [Show ID: 23797]
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[@DBoyTommie]

I'm studying Psych right now.. and this is probably one of the useful lectures I've seen so far. Amazing work.

[@eritreanism]

was it worth it?

[@mauricedaxton5230]

i guess Im asking the wrong place but does someone know of a way to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly lost my password. I would love any tricks you can give me

[@jonhohensee3258]

TJ - one of the useful?

[@elizabethantoine9652]

@jonhohensee3258 See! You are wasting your teaching talents on KZbin commentary- which is hardly the place for grammar wokeness

[@utopianseeker5493]

“Years of experience is not related to therapist’s effectiveness.” Very true! Most therapists have never worked as a mental health technician in an inpatient behavioral hospital.

[@sophian9105]

Psychotherapy saved my life. Now I am a social work major and future psychotherapist! Thank you for the video.

[@MandoLarian007]

I do not think Social Work major will teach you anything related to psychotherapy. I believe the speaker is a MD and you need years of education even after 4 yrs of college

[@ericmol2614]

Actually the relationship with a licensed psychotherapist is too imbalanced. Too inhumane. It's very harmful. In parenting you need emotional bonding but with licensed therapy they prohibit emotional bonding because ethics block it and this is extremely harmful and greatly inhumane for human beings. It's greatly abnormal and put it this way when babies do not emotionally bond then they could just die. Psychotherapy by definition is just that. Licensed psychotherapy because of the rules is not bonding and social. It's emotionally excommunicative and anti social which is extremely bad for humans since we are social animals. It's very cruel on the part of psychotherapists and they should be stopped. Currently I have a court case pointing this out. If all goes well then hopefully it will lead to many psychotherapists getting fined and going to jail. I was never warned about this during the consent form stage. They hide information too that would have helped me to decide to never go. I'm so sorry that I had went. So sorry.

[@elizabethantoine9652]

Meh your case most likely never made it to the court room and if it did it would be directly related to your particular situation- you will most likely be redirected to do your own due diligence when seeking out therapy- either way - the matter won’t change the trajectory of this field

[@Dr.AlessandroDrago]

She is right, Psychotherapy is absolutely a "mistery", a process where two person, never meet before, face to face, transform the past, with its pain and sorrow, in an extraordinary risource for "here-and-now". It's fantastic!

[@ShiraGoldberg]

As an MFT Grad student, at University of San Francisco, I have to tell you that this is such a comprehensive introduction to psychotherapy! Well done! You really added so much amazing content, and I am really glad you included the Transtheoretical Model of the Stages of Change. So happy I stumbled across this presentation.

[@emma-my8bn]

Thanks for having compassion for patients.

[@PhilippeJacquet]

Excellent video, very beneficial for those who took time to watch it.

[@markhenryramsey9132]

P.s this lecture is as relevant now in 2021 than it was 9 years ago. There are things that could be added now, but nothing is ‘wrong’. That I’m aware of.

[@richardkast9845]

Another theory or approach would be that of Sandor Grau, MD where two core processes of psychotherapy are 1) by verbalizing half known aspects of one's thoughts and desires they become more fully known, and 2) we have inherently conflicting, irreconsilable desires and goals, the verbal recognition of which helps cope. This would be the Ambavalence Based Psychotherapy.

[@ceciliaklinkenbergh5864]

Thanks for the great speech and valuable lessons! As to the question what makes it work ?… I‘d say that among all suggestions, at the basis of all is your survival instinct i.e. your willing to overcome your life challenges and transform them in your benefit.

[@jupiterinaries6150]

Cecilia Klinkenbergh i agree. When i think about my on-going therapy, it boils down to how much I value my self-preservation over other's in my life who try to control or manipulate me to my very detriment and loss of my precious time.

[@batonrougecounseling]

Very interesting.

[@OhNoItsRez]

Skip to 3:18 to actually start

[@davidk349]

How psychotherapy works is that if they like you, they will help you, and if they don't, they won't.

[@monikap8777]

Why do you say so?

[@charlescarabott7692]

More if you pay them they help you, if you don't pay them they won't help you

[@davidk349]

@@charlescarabott7692 You're right, they are in business for the money, and most of what you get from them is the standard stuff, like if you just do so and so, you will succeed at getting your needs. But I think people are judgmental, they just see your appearance and abilities, and decide if you would be of value to speak to.

[@davidk349]

@@monikap8777 It's just my.experience as how I saw things at the time. It hasn't changed much.

[@elizabethantoine9652]

It is terrible to read the negative comments- most certainly based on your personal negative attitude- towards therapy

[@hayleylewis1458]

How do I get a copy of the homework/feedback form. I want to measure my outcomes?

[@ThatGuyInBlueRoom]

Lacan!!

[@hayleylewis1458]

Psychoanalysis is the left brain change where real change occurs. (Over time) CBT is the quick and cheap therapy that insurance companies like (because it's short and crappy) CBT gives tools to change, (right brain change) that does not last. CBT looks to be the most successful BECAUSE IT HAS HAD THE MOST RESEARCH DONE...because insurance companies benefit from it as a cheap and fast treatment. 52minutes into the presentation she admits this

[@stilldaylight8175]

This is absolutely true. I did CBT and it did not result in lasting change, the messed up part is that it focuses on changing your thoughts so you actually end up THINKING you've change, when really you haven't. So that's why it's considered successful, because people go away THINKING they've changed, it's almost like short-term brain washing. Psychoanalysis results in real, meaningful, long-term change. I'm going Schema therapy which is a form of CBT that heavily relies on psychoanalysis so it's sort of a combined approach. Any way studies show that Schema Therapy not only results in lasting change, but in less sessions than CBT! So that should make insurance companies happy, but most people are unfamiliar with Schema Therapy, so it hasn't caught on yet.

[@markhenryramsey9132]

I love how if we use theistic rather than secular wording a lot of psychotherapy theory and practice is very religious. And I in no way meant to detract from either theistic or secular views. Merely that there is a lot of crossover/commonalities. If anything I would say that affirms both view points as to ‘being on to something’.

[@marilynrabinowitz8369]

Excellent talk. You don't mention Transpersonal Counselling. I am studying Transpersonal Art Therapy and would like to know what you think of this approach.

[@tigran2587]

Thanks, some nice and perhaps promising ideas. But the info provided seems to be oddly familiar in parts. Some topics she touches higher her psychological & physiological reality, seems just mumbling. Please, check her eye movements and the body language: Is it just me or it is really a bit disturbed, weird-is? Let me know what you think! cheers

[@serazard]

Oh yeah, but have you fellows evaluated just what this imagery is actually about?

[@avisiktachakraborty3438]

Psychological reasons based.......self clear......

[@adbarnett5]

HPA axis - is hypothalamus , pituitary and adreanal , no hypothalamus pituitary axis lol

[@mckonal]

.8 effect size

[@adbarnett5]

that is a LARGE effect

[@JustJean-xo8zl]

Them= Y We=FAITH

[@baodau2230]

W=TF R=U talking about

[@firststreeper]

This lady likes data :)

[@HowDareThey1970]

She leaves out mental health counselors... (Master's in Mental Health Counseling)

[@moshefabrikant1]

ממש מעניין אותי

[@jonhohensee3258]

What I wanna say is...

[@georgeepooh6621]

NO OFFENCE BUT THIS WAS A COMMERCIAL AND SHE ISN'T TOO DYNAMIC. SORRY

[@TypicalRussianGuy]

She did provide some insigts. For example, informing us about the scientific proofs that psychotherapy does work and informing us about the fact that we should keep track of the success of or patient\client or the lack of it. She also told us about the differences between psychotherapy and just consulting a friend, the information. Generally speaking, most of the information she told us about is not known to the general public. And while it is obviously a commercial, nobody forces you to pay them or anything. In our age of internet one can easily find the best academical books online and learn the stuff by yourself.

[@zapazap]

Did you have to SHOUT to tell us that?

[@mothergoose6087]

Mostly, we have to tell the truth. I mean everyone involved has to be truthful. This is so hard to do especially when someone tries to take memories intentionally. I don't think it's even hard to destroy memory with drugs for one way. I know my sleep can take my memory. You are your life not just what some fool says. Jesus is truth and life and love. Not to be cheap is better. I think I am owed in my life from my past with the interference of my brain and the way it works. Who can't be fooled. The devil is closer than you think. Just about right and wrong. Get it wrong and you are miserable, get it right and maybe you can be happy.

[@ahmadirfansyah5766]

Oiii buhannya

[@ethanh6655]

''and um'' she sounds half asleep!

[@reese3024]

ESKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETIT

[@elikuzmic8838]

In that interesting talk, with respect , send marked good base. How changes woun"t replacement in will a disorder whit "could and be" model, maybe, by the same approach on different one , a way helping (?) person too realize that became a treat must take offer as it planed ? asked subject, could be a meter reassure than in search own basement, must left introspected in takes, only abuse in part of. What after? off fertility, because somebody want have a new magazine without answer on mess with a barbie? Please not answer , Do not like any word not emotional colored also, on simple not, not planed be, but already have two wordly mine and do not want a new one. As child and grown need to be one, never have send a report without translator who is a bad friend, cultural and numbering worth for continue a life named "project" No more please. My excuse. Life is too precious and in just existing ,for moments send regard to past humans. Thank you.

[@MrFhackc3]

You can't even spell "offense". I'm offended

[@MrMarkhall1]

Psycho-the-rapist!

[@elizabethantoine9652]

Child, why did your parents let you have the computer or phone !? Go back to your room kiddo

[@MrMarkhall1]

@@elizabethantoine9652 fu

[@dromgarvan]

Very boring