Yair, I think non directive counselling is ideal, and is what my Psychologist used with me. My shrink was very directive and even yelled at me a few times. Eventually struck a balance which worked for me. It’s over four years since I’ve wanted to kill myself.
In prisons they may use a different counselling model. Glasser’s Reality Therapy is claimed to work well with people in institutions:
Glasser is controversial because he rejects the concept of mental illness. Although I reject Freud’s model of consciousness, I accept the existence of say psychopathy.
I’ve long had a sneaking suspicion that great deal of psychotherapy is simply bourgeois self indulgence. But I could be wrong***
Indeed. I was not able to give up drinking or smoking until I wanted to, for my own sake.
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*** I can’t remember when or where I read this, so it may be taken as anecdotal. That if left untreated, around 30 percent of people with depression recover on their own.