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what is your advice for finding a sane
sound therapist and do you think a
fruitful psychotherapeutic relationship
requires a therapist to have specific
temperamental compatibility or even
literacy and interests that align with
the patient well I would say with
regards to finding a sane and sound
therapist there's a practical things you
can do I guess this is more relevant if
you live in North America and I'm not
sure exactly what the training
requirements are in other places in the
world but your best bet I would say is
to find someone who's appropriately
trained and I would regard someone who's
appropriately trained as a
psychotherapist to be someone who's I
think you're safer if you go with
someone who's trained at one of the big
research schools and you have a
therapist who's well-versed in
psychotherapeutic practice but who's
also sufficiently educated
scientifically to be able to understand
the scientific literature and you can be
pretty certain of that
if you find a therapist who's got their
PhD rather than a sidee
not that there's anything necessarily
wrong with sides-- if they go receive
their PhD from an American Psychological
Association approved school of clinical
psychology and those schools operate
under what's called the boulder model
and the boulder model is promotes
science science practitioner as the
optimal ideal combination for
psychotherapists so someone who's
trained psychotherapeutic but also has
research experience and can understand
the relevant scientific literature as it
pertains to to mental health so that
would be the first thing the second
thing I would say is well go to see your
psychotherapist once and maybe go to see
a couple of them and find someone that
listens to you because the
psychotherapists shouldn't be someone
who solves your problems for you or
offers even really offers you advice
although sometimes that can be helpful
really what the psychotherapist should
do is be someone who can help you
understand what problem it is that
you're facing so that that can be
delineated properly to help you
articulate what it is that you want so
what your vision of mental health might
be
and what you'd like to attain in
psychotherapy and then who helps you
strategize towards that end and so you
want someone who will really listen to
you that you feel comfortable telling
the truth to because that's also
incredibly important if you can't tell
your psychotherapist the truth and
you're not going to get anywhere therapy
because you won't be able to actually
outline the nature of your fundamental
problems so that's vital and go see
someone and see if you're happy with the
way that you're interacting with them
that's the most relevant issue so that's
the first question
now the next one was do I think a sprint
full cycle therapeutic relationship
requires the therapist to have specific
temperamental compatibility or even
literacy and interests that align with
the patient I think it's difficult to
work with the therapist who is less
intelligent than you are that's kind of
a rough way of conceptualizing it but a
lot of what a therapist does is help you
strategize and the person has to be able
to think analytically and probably at
least to some degree - the same with the
same degree of complexity that you're
capable of it's not necessarily a good
idea to be able to out think your dear
therapist so was there ever a time when
you saw a therapist of some kind
well no actually I haven't ever seen a
therapist and and that might seem
strange as a bulletin that I am a
psychologist I don't really like talking
about my problems with other people as
it turns out I'd rather keep them to
myself and but but I would say having
said that is that I've read an awful lot
of the writings of the great clinical
psychologists and psychiatrists and I
would say that I've used them as
psychotherapeutic aids and I think that
that plays a very similar role that can
play a very similar role
you
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