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Insight therapies or insight-oriented psychotherapy relies on conversation between the therapist and the client. ^[1] Insight-oriented psychotherapy is a long process, wherein the client must spend multiple days per week with the therapist. ^[2] 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. ^[3] Also, it is assumed that it may be related to patient's unconsciousness from past life experiences. ^[4] Certain forms of insight-oriented psychotherapy are psychoanalysis and gestalt therapy.^[5] A downfall of insight-oriented psychotherapy would be the narrow range of people who could benefit from the therapy. ^[6] 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.^[7]

Insight oriented psychotherapy can refer to:

Psychoanalysis, a method of treatment of mental disorders by using talk therapy to discover and process unconscious thoughts and desires
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, a more brief and less intensive type of talk therapy that uses psychoanalytic theory and methods

History

The oldest form of insight-oriented psychotherapy was developed by Freud and is known as psychoanalysis. ^[8]

Dilemmas In Other Types of Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy

Different treatment options based on other assumptions about certain ameliorative factors in psychotherapy have been affected by this trend towards shorter treatment procedures. Insight-oriented therapies have generally consisted of treatment approaches that share the premise that behavior is disturbed in some manner through a lack of subject awareness.

These approaches to treatment include client-centered psychotherapy which focuses upon special conditions in the therapeutic relationship; existential psychotherapy with its focus upon anxiety of death, as well as philosophical questions regarding the meaning of life; and, the revamp of an interpersonal psychotherapy strategy stemming from its original Sullivanian conception. Many problems have emerged in clinical treatment settings, in large part due to time limitations, as well as the restricted, minimal focus placed upon each of the above types of treatment.^[9]

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References

^ Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
^ Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
^ Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
^ Insight-oriented Psychotherapy. (n.d.). University of Toronto: Counseling and Psychological Services. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://caps.utoronto.ca/Services-Offered/Individual-Psychotherapy/Insight-oriented-Psychotherapy.htm
^ Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
^ Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
^ Insight-oriented Psychotherapy. (n.d.). University of Toronto: Counseling and Psychological Services. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://caps.utoronto.ca/Services-Offered/Individual-Psychotherapy/Insight-oriented-Psychotherapy.htm
^ Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
^ Scaturo, Douglas (9/2002). "Fundamental Dilemmas in Contemporary Psychodynamic and Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy". Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 32 (2): 145–165. doi:10.1023/A:1020540909172. Retrieved 10 November 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

[1] Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[2] Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[3] Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[4] Insight-oriented Psychotherapy. (n.d.). University of Toronto: Counseling and Psychological Services. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://caps.utoronto.ca/Services-Offered/Individual-Psychotherapy/Insight-oriented-Psychotherapy.htm

[5] Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[6] Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[7] Insight-oriented Psychotherapy. (n.d.). University of Toronto: Counseling and Psychological Services. Retrieved April 9, 2012, from http://caps.utoronto.ca/Services-Offered/Individual-Psychotherapy/Insight-oriented-Psychotherapy.htm

[8] Carlson, Heth; et al. (2007). Psychology: The Science of Behavior. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

[9] Scaturo, Douglas (9/2002). "Fundamental Dilemmas in Contemporary Psychodynamic and Insight-Oriented Psychotherapy". Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. 32 (2): 145–165. doi:10.1023/A:1020540909172. Retrieved 10 November 2012. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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