Agreeing with Paul's response just now...and
also, by continuing to provide therapy, when in fact many of these problems need
to be addressed by government and society, it serves to continue the
illusion/lie that people need to change the way they think, so we are propping
up that lie.
Robert Newman (the comedian formerly of Newman and
Baddiel) said it really well, via a character in his excellent book, The
Fountain at the Centre of the World: 'It's easier and less costly to change the
way people think about reality, than to change reality'. That says it perfectly
as far as I'm concerned.
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Politically neutral BBC as always...
But surely any psychologist or CBT practitioner is working with people to
challenge the assumptions they may be making about having been made unemployed
(ie "I've lost my job therefore I am useless") and is certainly not working to
suggest that unemployment is not a problem which needs to be addressed by the
government and society?
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Thank you Mike for that reference I will have a look; and I
totally agree Penny. Having experienced only 4 group-sessions (not
going for the remaining 2) of CBT around a year and a half ago I knew
something was off with its very foundations. I am struggling to figure
out how to approach the all pervasive advocacy and practice of CBT, not only
in the welfare function of my University, but peers of mine. It's so
frustrating because the people who advocate it are 'experts' and the peers
who support it, support it exactly because it is advocated by 'experts' who
are 'evidence-based', whatever that means.
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