But the self-help route has another limitation worth bearing in mind: what makes you so confident you even know what your problems really are? Rather than productivity techniques, maybe you need to face the fact that your job provides no meaning. And if CBT is truly no better than self-help, maybe the right conclusion isn’t that therapists don’t matter, but that CBT isn’t necessarily the apogee of therapy? Crucially, the point isn’t that therapists are wiser, thus better placed to tell you what your problems are. Therapy isn’t the only way to do this: journaling, meditation, even some books are among the others.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2017 13:52 UTC