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Who Should I See For Help? If you are struggling with a problem, you have at least three main options to choose from in terms of who you can see for help. You can see a psychotherapist, a psychologist or a psychiatrist. The differences between these mental health professionals is outlined below. 1) -A good fit with your therapist, or liking this person and trusting in their capacities, has been shown to be more important to the outcome or effectiveness of the therapy, than the specific type of therapy that they practice. -relational psychoanalytic psychotherapy) views the reasons for behaviour as very complex and multiply determined. There are deep-seated reasons for why we do things that are often quite resistant to change through conventional means. We often can not change just because we want to, or just because we can see that our behaviour is self defeating or damaging to others. Change can usually not occur without professional assistance. Understanding the problem intellectually is not enough (if it was, we could change our behaviour by reading self-help books, which rarely works!). -A therapeutic relationship may develop that the patients finds to be unconditionally supportive and useful in a way that they had not experienced before. The patient's difficulties are often brought into the room and understood in this new context. The psychoanalytic therapist makes interpretions, or evidence-based, educated guesses about what the patient presents, and understanding progresses through the collaborative negotiation of these ideas. With this said, what therapy is and how it works can be difficult to grasp without personal experience. Therefore, trying a few sessions with a therapist is the best way to know what therapy is. - -Some psychotherapists (i.e. psychoanalytic psychotherapists) are required to undergo their own, personal psychotherapy, multiple times per week for several years, as part of their training requirement. This is to ensure that the therapist is emotionally stable and appropriately insightful about their own psychological functioning, in order to begin to understand the problems of one ’s patients and assist them through their therapy. -Psychologists and psychiatrists are not required to be in therapy before they begin to be a therapist. However, these professionals may have undergone a psychoanalytic training in addition to their university training.

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