Psychotherapy helps people in two ways. First, it helps people understand how their minds work which usually helps free them from repeating irrational and destructive patterns. Second, the therapist seeks to help patient have corrective emotional experiences that counteract their self-destructive and defensive beliefs. The combination of insight and new corrective experience, both inside and outside the therapy relationship are what provide the engine of therapeutic change.
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