Does Psychotherapy Help?

Does Psychotherapy Help?

As indicated elsewhere, for the actual treatment of depressive illness, research to date has only been able to prove the value of Cognitive Therapy and of Interpersonal Therapy. 

However, depression is the result of stress overwhelming an individual’s personal resilience or personal strength.  If there are unresolved distressing emotional issues from a person’s current life, from their current relationships or from events in their past which continue to distress them, they will always be excessively vulnerable to emotional suffering and to depressive illness.  In these situations, although not yet proven by research, it would seem inescapably logical to have a reasonable amount of psychotherapy, designed to try to unravel these issues and put them to rest mentally.

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