2_Theories

2 Theories There are many different types of therapies or psychological methods used to alleviate problems. First, there are therapies that emphasize the value of gaining insight to personal problems. Then there are behavior therapies and cognitive therapies, which are used to directly change troublesome actions and thoughts. Two therapies I will be describing are Rational-emotional behavior therapy and psychodynamic. “Rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) attempts to change or remove irrational beliefs that cause emotional problems.” Albert Ellis states the basic idea of rational-emotive behavior is easy as ABC. He assumes that people become unhappy and develop self-defeating habits because they have unrealistic or faulty beliefs. Ellis analyzes problems in this way: The letter A stands for an activating experience, which the person assumes to be the cause of C, an emotional consequence. For example, a person who is rejected (the activating experience) feels depressed, threatened, or hurt (the consequence). Rational-emotive therapy, however, shows that the real problem comes between A and C. In between is B, the patient’s unrealistic beliefs. There are many irrational or unrealistic beliefs that we all tend to hold. Rational-emotive behavior therapy holds that events do not cause us to have feelings. We feel as we behavior, analysis, therapies, rational-emotive, beliefs, therapy, psychoanalysis, problems, unrealistic, patient, emotional, cause, because, way, transference, techniques, resistance, problem, person, patient’s, irrational, ideas, freud, free, feelings, experience, ellis, dream, consequence, comes, change, between, become, basic, assumes, association, analyst, activating, without, whoever, whether, whatever, value, unhappy, uncover, unconsciousness, unconscious, types, two, troublesome, towards