Also known as psychodynamic psychotherapy, insight therapy is a technique whish assumes that a person's behavior, thoughts, and emotions become disordered as a result of the individual's lack of understanding as to what motivates him or her, such as unresolved old conflicts or beliefs.
Insight therapies or insight-oriented psychotherapy relies on conversation between the therapist and the client. It helps people through understanding and expressing feelings, motivations, beliefs, fears and desires. Insight-oriented psychotherapy is a long process, wherein the client must spend multiple days per week with the therapist. As insight-oriented psychotherapy is a client-centered therapy, it is assumed that the client is healthy and their problem is a result of faulty-thinking.
Certain forms of insight-oriented psychotherapy are psychoanalysis and gestalt therapy. A downfall of insight-oriented psychotherapy would be the narrow range of people who could benefit from the therapy. During the therapy, the patient talks about what is on their mind and the therapist looks for patterns in situations in which the patient might feel stress or anxiety. Patients typically wish to explore their anxiety more deeply because of a belief that deeper exploration will lead to change.
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