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Cognitive Therapy This tends to be used when dealing with conditions where the person’s emotions are largely involved, such as depression, eating disorders or anxiety. It focuses on identifying recurring thoughts or patterns, such as low self esteem, or, as is the case with bulimia, fasting, binge eating and then vomiting. Once these patterns have been identified the person will discuss ways of dealing with them, breaking the cycles or other ways of coping with the same problems. Often it is the case that the recurring thoughts are what keep the symptoms of the illness present in that person, so once they are identified and discussed these symptoms will tend to subside. Psychodynamic Therapy This is also known as psychoanalysis. It is used to help the person discuss emotionally painful topics and to identify the part that they played in the distressing situation, and it looks to identify any patterns present in these situations. From here the person can then look at other ways they could have reacted or find other solutions to the problems they encountered. Behaviour Therapy In this form of therapy the aim is to identify certain behaviours linked to the problem, and deal with these by trying to behave differently when reacting to the situations where these behavioural patterns arise. However, this requires a long period of conscious learning before the new behaviour becomes an automatic reaction, and sometimes people lose motivation before it begins to work. |
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