The Different Types of Psychotherapy

When I talk to med students about psychotherapy, I will use the phrase alphabet soup. So we have DBT, ACT, CBT, and for an M4 headed into intern year, it can be kind of a head-spinning number of acronyms that keep straight. The whole idea of this comes from a tree trunk; almost all therapies have a tree trunk. And that tree trunk really involves common factors, the kinds of supportive and humanistic interventions that help you form a relationship with someone that is sub-parachuted and not friendship.