Depth Therapy
What is Depth Psychology?
Depth psychology explores your subconscious mind, feelings, thoughts, and behaviours to identify the underlying root causes of your difficulties. The depth therapy process is divided into three main schools or approaches: psychoanalysis, individual psychology, and analytical psychology. Psychoanalysis is primarily based on the work of Sigmund Freud, Individual psychology is based on the work of Alfred Adler, and analytical psychology is based on the work of Carl Jung, referred to as a Jungian approach. What underlies these three specific focuses is the idea that the human psyche stores your experiences consciously and unconsciously. Some experiences have been repressed and so need to be uncovered by the help of the therapist.
Depth psychology engages and incorporates the unconscious psyche into the treatment. This is an essential part of therapy. Depth psychologists believe that for a person to achieve emotional well-being, self-discovery, and growth, it is important to uncover the layers of the psyche.
At the turn of the 20th century, Eugen Bleuler, professor of psychiatry at Zürich University, founded the term “depth psychology”. It has become a term used by Freudians and Jungians to refer to psychologies that have an unconscious guiding principle.
This notion of the unconscious has evolved into an understanding that includes both structural aspects and symbolic portions, as well as the study of processes functioning outside of conscious awareness. In general, they see the individual human being as sometimes divided against itself; some of its thoughts, feelings, wishes, and memories may be visible to the conscious mind, while other aspects remain unseen. Jung and Freud sought to show and explain what lies beneath conscious awareness as well as to clarify the dynamics between conscious awareness and what is extruded or not acknowledged.
Deep psychologists look for signs and symptoms of the unconscious in everything they do with their clients and in the world, including dreams, images, slips of the tongue, and meaningful coincidences, as well as interpersonal engagements. Approaches based on depth psychology seek to help people become aware of what has been excluded from awareness or that they are not yet conscious of. As part of the healing process, all previously repressed, rejected, disregarded or ignored feelings are allowed to emerge so that the individual can examine their meaning and integrate them, allowing them to gain a greater understanding. Furthermore, depth psychology takes into account the way unconscious processes are expressed through society and culture, as well as the influence of culture on the psyche.
How Depth Therapy Works
Depth therapy depends upon the bond between the therapist and the person in treatment. Exploring the person’s unconscious mind requires complete trust and acceptance of the process. The therapist needs to respect the inner wisdom of the person being worked with. You may find that a deep exploration of root causes may involve past experiences or current life experiences.
The therapist helps the person by guiding them through exploration and examination of events that the person in treatment is not necessarily conscious of. This unconscious information can be used as a tool to develop more positive traits on the conscious and unconscious levels.
A therapeutic technique is the Socratic Questioning: Guidance toward the best answer comes from asking the right questions. The therapist kindly and gently asks questions that challenge an individual to develop an awareness of unconscious and underlying motivations and the experiences in their lives that might have caused them. The Socratic questioning process may also be used to identify better plans of action that are not influenced by unconscious and little understood factors.
How Depth Psychology Helps
People whose difficulties are hidden deep in the past or in the subconscious mind may find depth therapy to be a useful tool. Whether you suffer from compulsions, difficult relationship issues, depression, or anxiety, depth therapy can examine the possible underlying root cause. Typically, no one underlying issue is focused on by the counselling therapist, as subconscious emotions can cause an entire scope of issues.
Depth Therapy from Gaia Counselling
Gaia Counselling’s approach explores the subtle, subconscious, and transpersonal aspects of the human experience. Let’s take this journey together, exploring how your underlying unconscious emotions manifest themselves into your everyday life.
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