[roguecoder]

I had very good results with psychodynamic therapy, but it takes longer than cognitive-behavioral approaches.

Psychodynamic therapy is like refactoring your brain: you look at old patterns you haven’t thought about in years, consider if they are still serving you, and make small, incremental changes that increase your cohesion of self & improve the interfaces with the rest of the world.

CBT is like bug bashing: find a problem, fix that line of code. If that line is the only problem it is amazing. If there are external reasons for what you are feeling, or a bunch of code written under unrealistic deadlines with unexpected behavior all over the place, CBT isn’t designed to help.