What is psychotherapy?

  What is psychotherapy?  If it could be discussed at length from an academic point of view, I am not going to give an academic presentation. Today I came across a saying, “When you can’t deal with yourself, others are best able to deal with you.” Borrowing from this quote, we can say: When you can’t deal with yourself (sadness, pain, inner conflict, real problems, etc.), psychological symptoms (compulsion, somatization, anxiety, etc.) are the best to control you. Over time, the psychological symptoms will gradually solidify and eventually form psychological problems.  We need to constantly understand ourselves, improve ourselves, so that we can calmly exist in the complex and changing environment of life, we can not become perfect people, life will certainly have anxiety, depression, conflict, sadness, but we can become “resilient” people, “soft But we can become “resilient” people, “soft” people, constantly adjusting our minds under external pressure and stimulation, actively adapting to the environment, and still maintaining a balanced and healthy state, not letting psychological symptoms “help” us deal with these problems. This is what psychotherapy hopes to achieve. So, many people who come to psychotherapy for compulsions, anxiety or other problems, when these problems are solved, they feel that their lives have changed, they feel more at peace with themselves and their relationships with their families have improved, probably because they have become more “soft” people, more energetic people psychologically.  Of course, many psychological problems are formed at an early age, which requires the client and therapist to explore and analyze together, find the root of the problem, and deal with it properly before they can lose their psychological baggage and become better versions of themselves. I think these are the contents of psychotherapy.