The ancient civilisations of Egypt and Greece had very clear ideas about mental health especially about depression and dementia. Buddhism also has ideas about the cause of mental suffering coming from ignorance. Traditional Chinese Medicine makes links between the organs and the emotions and provides techniques for working with these via acupuncture. The great Islamic civilisations also contributed to psychotherapy by introducing the ideas of mental health and using medicine to treat the mentally ill. Throughout the medieval period mental illness was associated with possession or was seen as the sins of the person being the cause. Hence religion and religious practices where seen as the main ways of treating people. These could often be very brutal or involve death. Towards the end of the 18th century however things had begun to change. Franz Mesmer developed a new technique called Mesmerism that what a primitive form of hypnotherapy. This was the first time that a more scientific approach was developed.

A psychotherapist is someone who provides psychotherapy to clients on a professional basis. This may be to individuals, couples, families or in a group setting. A psychotherapist may have other trainings or backgrounds. For example they may also be a doctor, social worker, mental health worker, nurse or counsellor. However when seeing a client for psychotherapy they will only have that role with the client and not be providing them with any other service. Psychotherapists will usually have had an intensive training which is generally between 4-8 years in length. This training will have involved a period of supervised practice as well as their own personal therapy.

The way that the psychotherapist works with a client will depend upon their training and the theory that they use to help the client. In general psychotherapy is attempting to help the person live a more satisfying life by helping to: build the persons sense of their own esteem; resolve issues from their past that are affecting them in the present; them to have healthier relationships; and to gain perspective and skills to tackle their problems themselves.

There are many Boca Raton Psychotherapy centers and counselors that you can choose from, but you must be sure that you choose a high quality, professional and experienced service for your needs, otherwise you may never fully resolve your family and marriage issues. You must use a service which can identify all the problems you are having, and prescribe the best counseling treatment for it so that you can learn to deal with the problems and fix them naturally over time. Many low standard services may merely look you and your problems over and just prescribe medicine, this is in no way, shape or form the correct path to choose, you should be correcting your mindset and outlook on life, as this is the most beneficial and long term success treatment you can get. A professional Boca Raton Psychologist will be able to set you and your family on a course that is aimed towards happiness, and not only that, ever lasting happiness, which is the goal of each and every family.

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