Rational psychotherapy

The rational psychotherapy plays a very important role in correctional work, its main mission – improvement of mentality. The direction it arose at the beginning of the last century, it appeals not to subconscious (as hypnosis), and to reason. Paul Luboi acted as his ancestor. Practicing, he actively applied the reasoned impact on people.

The essence of rational psychotherapy consists in the consecutive stages cooperation of the patient and doctor, it includes: studying the identity of the first, clarification of problems, search of ways of their decision, creation of the medical mode, the thought-over training of the personality, development of the fresh relations and their fixing.

Types of rational psychotherapy

The rational psychotherapy is called also rationally emotivny psychotherapy. The psychotherapists working in this sphere believe that people add the beliefs of irrational property to rational judgments. To eliminate this violation, the doctor helps patients to reveal the categorical imperatives and to begin to doubt in them. The expert works with a problem by emotivny, behavioural and cognitive methods.

Rational and emotional psychotherapy – the main direction developed and accurately created in the fifties by the psychologist Albert Eliss. The method regards as of paramount importance thoughts, behavior and feelings of the person. It is considered that not so not events upset or please, and those emotions which they cause in the patient. The essence of a method consists in correction of internal perception. Its extremely important stage is tasks which the patient has to do and which have to promote fixing of adequate perception of reality and normal, adaptive behavior.

Cognitive and rational psychotherapy – in fact only option of the method described above. All types of cognitive psychotherapy are close to each other, both in the theory, and in the applied methods.