Psychotherapy · Lecture 29 · 22 routes

Therapy Routes under the Flow Hijacked Lens

Twenty-two routes, each kept faithful to its own language. One map for seeing which processes a therapy recruits, in what sequence, for which problem and within which boundaries.

This map supports learning, conversation and formulation. It does not rank therapies, select treatment or replace professional assessment.

Not a contest. A choreography.

The same pain may need a different route at a different moment.

Psychotherapy is not a shelf of brands competing for one correct explanation. CBT tests a prediction through action; ERP stops a ritual from closing uncertainty; DBT builds an interval inside crisis; psychodynamic work meets repetition in relationship; family therapy changes the unit of observation. Their procedures, training and evidence are not identical—and are kept distinct here.

Lecture 29 adds a careful comparison layer: attention, cognition, behavior, affect, memory, body, relationship and values. Each page keeps the route in its own terms, shows what happens in the room, maps the transition it tries to make possible, and names uses, fit, limits and research anchors.

A common framework is useful only when it helps us see the differences more clearly.

I · Route family

Prediction & learning

Routes that make a prediction testable, restore contact with evidence, or update the way a memory governs the present.

01CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Collaborative formulation, behavioral experiments and condition-specific skills make rigid appraisal–action loops available to new evidence.

Therapy Routes under the Flow Hijacked Lens

The same pain may need a different route at a different moment.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Behavioral Activation

Exposure Therapy and ERP

PE and CPT for Trauma

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Mindfulness-Based Therapies

Compassion-Focused Therapy

Schema Therapy

Mentalization-Based Therapy

Interpersonal Psychotherapy

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

Somatic Experiencing and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

EFT and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy

Family and Systemic Therapy

Group Therapy

Narrative, Existential and Humanistic Therapies

Motivational Interviewing, Relapse Prevention and Contingency Management

IPSRT, Psychoeducation and Skills Training

Integrative and Process-Based Therapy