Are patients a rorschach test?

Question

I've been to a number of different therapists to help me with my depression. The funny thing is, I tell them all the same thing, and they all tell me something different.

How much of what psychyatrists see in a person is reflective of the psychyatrists themselves?

Answer 1

quite a bit. Each has there own interpretation of what you are experiencing. It depends on their education and the theraphy or the theories they believe in are the most important. Maybe if you out together all the diffrent answers that you are given from each of them it will help you

Answer 2

That may be the case sometime, that psychiatrists reflect their issues on you, however, there are quite a few different schools of therapy (be it behavioral, emotion-focused, interpersonal, psychoanalysis, etc.), and all of those may lead to different conclusions. Not to mention that most of those psychologists/psychiatrists are trained in different schools of therapy under different instructors. All of this can lead to different ways of interpreting your problems. They may not ALL be wrong, they may not ALL have had a chance to get far enough into therapy to identify any real problems you have, and they may not ALL be good therapists.

Answer 3

of cos, not all therapist are the same. apart from their individual difference, they are distinct in their orientation.

for example, a therapist who is coming from a freudian background will conceptualise ya issues from a freudian perspective. n that issue is conceptualize very different in another orientation, for example, a cognitive-behavioral approach.

u may have seen many therapist but they may be trained in different orientation. there is not evidence to say which orientation is best. and there are evidence that therapy will work. therapy is a slow road to self-discovery, so u need to stick to the same one for a period of time before u can see effect.

Answer 4

that's why no 2 people experience the same thing in exactly the same way. we all experience things through our own past experiences and, in this case, probably training.