title: Psychotherapy and cognitive style.
abstract: Patients who have a concrete cognitive style are psychotherapeutically best treated by methods that take into account their cognitive style, whether it is defensive or results from a cognitive developmental arrest. Concrete thinking, while an obstacle to insight-oriented therapy, is no obstacle to changing attitudes and behaviors by means that do not involve the development of insight into unconscious conflict or motivation.
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003210:Concept Formation; D003243:Consciousness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D014888:Wechsler Scales