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KMID : 0381219860180020115
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Journal of RIMSK
1986 Volume.18 No. 2 p.115 ~ p.121
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Common, Nonspecific Therapeutic Factors of Psychotherapy
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Abstract
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Psychotherapy attempts to alleviate emotional suffering and to enhance personality adjustment through planned psychological interventions. Nowadays, new theories and procedures keep emerging. Old systems change and pass away. Values, concepts, and methods of psychotherapy modify constantly. So, the field of psychotherapy is in ferment. A recent handbook lists over 250 brand name therapies.
Therapies have proliferated to the point where even therapists have trouble keeping them straight. There are .innumerable strains, brands, and types of therapy offered today, each of which seems quite different in method and theory from the rest. These different therapies can result in confusion to the beginner, although they can contribute to success of treatment, if indicated. It has been stated before that a neurosis is not an absolute characteristic of an individual but the result of interaction with the environment.
A person might become neurotic in one environment and remain healthy in another. Indeed, operative constantly on the individual are a variety of forces that serve to ameliorate neurotic symptoms and, even, under fortunate circumstances, to sponsor personality growth. Psychotherapy is by no means the only medium through which such benefits may be achieved. "I bandage, nature cures" quoted Freud. By this quotation, Freud stressed the importance of inner healing power of a patient. If we are able to define the forces that nurture emotional health apart from psychotherapy, we may be able to incorporate these into our .therapeutic program, or at least prevent ourselves from inhibiting them. To adapt only a specific method to a patient without consideration to these fundamental problems is
something like "built a house on the sand". Therefore, 1, the author want to consider nonspecific factors in psychotherapy with a strong belief to their importance through the literatures of Dr. Wolberg and other scholars as a preliminary step for the further research and study.
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