Psychotherapy sessions are not just random doctor-patient meetings or chats. Quite the opposite: they are therapeutic sessions that are no less important than medications. In some conditions, they are indispensable, and in other conditions, they may be the only effective treatment.

There are many psychotherapy schools with well-established scientific origins and foundations, including, for example, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Cognitive-behavioral therapy is a psychotherapy method that aims to modify the maladaptive thoughts and the negative feelings that accompany those thoughts and that can lead to negative or maladaptive behaviors. Cognitive-behavioral therapy has proven to be very effective in treating depression, stress, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

There are many other medical schools in the field of psychotherapy that we will review in later publications. These include, but are not limited to:

Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Dialectical behavioral psychotherapy

Evidence-based medical research, over the last three decades, has shown that the effectiveness of some psychological treatments is not limited to the positive effects of improving symptoms only, but may extend to the chemical and physiological properties of the brain. It has also proven to be effective in treating many mental illnesses and obtaining better results on the long term when added to drug therapy.

This article was written by Dr. Sherif Gohar, consultant psychiatrist. 

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