If a person has a phobia, for example, a behavioral therapist might expose the person to the feared stimulus in small doses. This is in order to desensitize them to the feared stimulus. Behavioral techniques tend to work in the realm of conditioned responses and behavior rather than deeper meanings.
An example of a Gestalt technique might be to have the patient pretend their spouse or boss or some other important person is sitting in a chair next to them and to express to that person whatever they feel toward them in a role played conversation. Gestalt techniques tend to be experiential and emotive in this way.
CBT treatments try to uncover what they call irrational thoughts that cause problematic emotional reactions. They then tend to dispute or “reframe” those thoughts with less upsetting types of thoughts or cognitions.
The psychoanalytic belief is that conscious, visible symptoms like catastrophizing or phobias or panic have to do with other less conscious, less easily visible problems. Psychoanalytic therapy is designed to address the less conscious problems that underlie the conscious ones.
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