Snight and rethinking the “evidence -based” therapy

Description of something, including PsychotherapyAs a “evidence -based treatment”, it can be reassuring because we think this means that it works. Many believe that the description indicates that it is more scientific and worthy. The problem is that researching the experimental evidence of “evidence -based” psychotherapy reveals a different story. Jonathan Schller also confirms his research and clinical practice:

“In light of the strong allegations of evidence based on evidence and general distortion of other treatments, one may assume that there should be very strong scientific evidence of its benefits. It does not exist.¹

However, evidence -based practices are not the problem. Instead, wrong information, wrong assumptions and expectations made to them are a problem. For example, many studies on evidence -based therapy Show high leakage rates, It indicates that it was effective for some, but it is inaccurate for those who resigned. The fact is that research results research are complex and accurate, which makes it difficult to perform and measure. Child experiences with evidence are the gold standard, but their results are often not circulated to clinical practice.

Moreover, when the patient’s experience is not Compatible To what evidence should occur, “evidence -based” methods of this individual must be interrogated. I worked with people who did not respond to evidence -based methods, but they responded to the “not based on evidence.” This highlights the need to allocate treatment, consider the patient’s properties, and to merge clinical and clinical experience to achieve effective results, including improving mental health and reducing symptoms.

Evidence -based treatment cannot capture all the issues that patients bring to the consulting room, especially some of the most complicated and meaningful dimensions in their human experience. I heard more than 45,000 hours of human stories, and I cannot explain many things. Many of these things SynchronizationWhat happens when an event in the outside world coincides with a useful way with the inner world of ideas, feelings, pictures, feelings and memories, and dreamsBut not for causal reasons (read more In my previous blog).

The synchronization of communications and relationships that enhance healing can be created. They can overcome the small self and penetrate the defenses by obtaining the patient attention With a lens for psychotherapy. In my professional experience, as well as many others, many psychological treatments and treatments, including experimentally supported and evidence -based practice, cannot explain these irregular experiences that are meaningless.

When the evidence -based remedies do not work, but “irrational” does not work

When a synchronization occurred in a session with a stuck patient, Karl Young noted: “It is clear that something is completely irrational, who was outside my power to produce.” When iRation appears, it creates an experience for both the patient and the psychotherapist to explore, which the problem can advance forward in a way that they have not thought about before.

Years ago, the monarchy’s butterflies arose in two different sessions with two different patients – on the same day – where each of them struggled with shock Loss of their husbands. One patient sorrows his wife Suicide. Struggle marriageShe remains with her Fearful She was killing herself. They stayed together, and she died because of suicide anyway. Despite the interventions based on the evidence that supports it Mentality and It affects the organizationHe was I was guiltyIn particular, when recounting years of conflict, including her last argument, hours before ending her life. These procedures are recommended for evidence of mental health conditions such as mood and post -shock disorders pressure Disorder, but, as with this patient, does not always lead to effective results.

As part, the patient participated that the monarch’s butterflies were randomly visiting him after the death of his wife. He felt that his wife was sending him a message, but he thought he was “imagining things.” I noticed how these experiments raised curiosity. I invited him to explore the “ridiculous events.” Share how his life changed dramatically, and compared it to the change process from Catpeberler to a butterfly.

Butterflies with a haven in Mexico visited his wife. His associations have been pumped, stressing how collective butterflies represent change and transformation. At the cultural level, he was surprised to find out how the monarchy butterfly in Mexico was recorded as a symbol linking neighborhoods and death, which directs the lives of departure to Earth during the day of the dead celebration. this The meaning of the symbol He was more private for him, given his relationship with Mexico.

By discussing and integrating personal, cultural and exemplary levels of meaning, Maryami finally reached peace with the belief that death launched his wife from her mental pain. Butterfly scenes were partially felt that it was a message that her suicide opened to convert it. for him Guilt He was working to prevent him from embracing his new life. My patients have become more free and have taken steps to change his life significantly. Working with this synchronization helped penetrate the materials that helped him move forward.

Cultivation of acceptance and imagination through synchronization

On the same day, another patient brought the monarch’s butterflies. Her husband was diagnosed with a gradual and delusional disease. It is still functional, volunteer to clean society and disappear. Comprehensive searches and rescue operations have been sent, but to no avail.

A patient found herself up to an unenviable fact: her husband now became a “missing person.” Her husband could not be seen again. Her mind went to the Hoos Loose about what happened and where he finds it. She was guilty because she did not join him in this event once.

She, also, visited her butterflies and found her visit comfortable. When the facts of this tragedy became more clear, leaving butterflies can relax and carry the meaning feels that he is a traitor towards her beloved husband. While she worked with her defenses, a major topic appeared: They did everything together, and her husband was slowly fading before his craftsman.

She had started to live more independently, which felt abroad, and was loaded sadness. She wanted him to keep his dignity and not suffer from this gradual disease, and his tragic disappearance, which means that he will not suffer from this fate. She was destroyed because he left and was not ready to die, but he found consolation that this had survived the scourge of his illness.

On a Spiritualism The level, I wondered whether this was his last gift to her. While you think about this idea, the monarch’s butterfly flies on a flower directly in front of it, which motivated Dread And thinking. She also shared how, like the perseverance butterfly, which guides her long journey with the inner compass, was facing a long journey of life without him.

She liked to imagine that her husband confirmed these ideas and was saying: “I am free now. You are on your independent journey. Trust in an internal compass and I know that I am flying with you.” This was meaningful, and shortly after that, a search worker, without knowing the butterfly communication, and called with the news of discharge. For Maryam’s amazement, the worker contacted again and she shared that she had seen the butterfly of the monarch and was transferred to contact her, although she did not know the reason.

In our work, we planted communication with existence and acceptance and ImaginationInstead of rejection, judgment or prior knowledge. We are linked Openness To the synchronization of the young, which motivated the process and their comfort in a way that I could not dispense with without synchronization. Common methods help use conflicts and support us when facing life pressures, but unique experiences such as synchronization may provide comfort and meaning that traditional practices cannot provide. By integrating synchronization in psychotherapy, in an approach I call “Enlightened psychotherapy synchronization“The patient can be affected in a way that words cannot stimulate alone.²