쉐도잉 연습: How Psychotherapy Works - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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When one is in a bad place in one's head, the modern world offers three main sources of help.
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Psychiatric meditation, CBT and psychotherapy.
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Each one of these has its own advantages and drawbacks.
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Medication can be exemplary in a crisis, at points when the mind is so under siege from fear,
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anxiety or despair, that thinking things through cannot be an option.
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Correctly administered, without requiring any conscious cooperation from us, pills play around with our brain chemistry in a way
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that helps us get through to the next day and the one after.
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We may get very sleepy, a bit nauseous or rather foggy in the process, but at least we're still around and functioning more or less.
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Then there is cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT, normally administered by psychologists and psychiatrists in six to ten hour-long sessions,
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which teaches techniques for arguing rationally with, and with any luck at points controlling,
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the ghoulish certainties thrown up by our internal persecutors.
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Paranoia, low self-esteem, shame and panic.
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Lastly, there is psychotherapy, which from a distance looks like it has only drawbacks.
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Psychotherapy has a very hard time showing its efficacy in scientific trials
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and it has to plead that its results are too singular, neatly to fit the models offered by statisticians.
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Also, it takes up a large amount of time, demanding perhaps two sessions a week for a couple of years
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and it's therefore by far the most expensive option on the menu.
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Finally, psychotherapy requires active engagement from its patients and sustained emotional effort.
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One can't simply allow chemistry to do the work.
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And yet, psychotherapy is in certain cases a hugely effective choice, which properly alleviates pain, not by magic or chance,
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but for three solidly founded reasons.
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Firstly, our unconscious feelings become conscious.
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A founding idea of psychotherapy is that we get mentally unwell,
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have a breakdown or develop phobias because we are not sufficiently aware of the difficulties we have been through.
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Somewhere in the past, we have endured certain situations that were so troubling or sad,
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they outstripped our rational faculties and had to be pushed out of day-to-day awareness.
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For example, we can't remember the real dynamics of our relationship with a parent.
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We can't see what we do every time someone tries to get close to us, nor trace the origins of our self-sabotage or panic around sex.
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Victims of our unconscious, we cannot grasp what we long for or are terrified by.
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In such cases, we cannot be healed simply through rational discussion as proponents of CBT implicitly propose,
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because we can't fathom what's powering our distress in the first place.
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Psychotherapy is a tool for correcting our self-ignorance in the most profound ways.
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It provides us with a space in which we can, in safety, say whatever comes into our heads.
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The therapist won't be disgusted or surprised or bored.
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They've seen everything already.
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In their company, we can feel acceptable and our secrets sympathetically unpacked.
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As a result, crucial ideas and feelings bubble up from the unconscious and are healed through exposure, interpretation and contextualisation.
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We cry about incidents we didn't even know before the session started, that we'd been through or felt so strongly about.
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The ghosts of the past are seen in daylight and are laid to rest.
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There's a second reason why psychotherapy can work so well – transference.
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Transference is a technical term that describes the way, once therapy develops, a patient will start to behave towards the therapist in ways
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that echo aspects of their most important and most traumatic past relationships.
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A patient with a punitive parent might, for example, develop a strong feeling that the therapist must find them revolting or boring.
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Or a patient who needed to keep a depressed parent cheerful when they were small might feel compelled
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to put up a jokey facade whenever dangerously sad topics come into view.
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We transfer like this outside therapy all the time.
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But there, what we're doing doesn't get noticed or properly dealt with.
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However, psychotherapy is a controlled experiment that can teach us to observe what we're up to, understand where our impulses come from,
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and then adjust our behaviour in less unfortunate directions.
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A therapist might gently ask a patient why they are so convinced they must be disgusting.
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Or they might lead them to see how their use of jokey sarcasm is covering up underlying sadness and terror.
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The patient thereby starts to spot the distortions in their expectations set up by their history
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and develops less self-defeating ways of interacting with people in their lives going forward.
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Then, the third reason why psychotherapy works.
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It is the first good relationship.
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We are, many of us, critically damaged by the legacy of past bad relationships.
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When we were defenseless and small, we didn't have the luxury of experiencing people who were reliable,
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who listened to us, who set the right boundaries and helped us to feel legitimate and worthy.
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However, when things go well, the therapist is experienced as the first truly supportive and reliable person we've yet encountered.
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They become the good parent we so needed and maybe never had.
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In their company, we can regress to stages of development that went wrong and relive them with a better ending.
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Now we can express need, we can be properly angry and entirely devastated and they will take it,
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thereby making good years of pain.
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One good relationship becomes the model for relationships outside the therapy room.
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The therapist's moderate, intelligent voice becomes part of our own inner dialogue.
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We are cured through continuous, repeated exposure to sanity and kindness.
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Psychotherapy won't work for everyone.
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One has to be in the right place in one's mind.
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One has to stumble on a good therapist and be in a position to give the process due time and care.
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But With all that said, with a fair wind, psychotherapy also has the chance to be the best thing we ever get around to doing.
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Thank you.

이 레슨의 어휘와 말하기 포인트

이 C1 수준 말하기 레슨은 영상 “How Psychotherapy Works”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: psychotherapy, therapist, patient, relationship, therapy. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 71개와 단어 1012개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 7:15입니다. 화자는 분당 약 140단어의 일정한 속도로 말해서 섀도잉하기에 편한 속도입니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 77%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.

이 영상의 핵심 어휘

영상에서 가장 어려운 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.

단어발음뜻
therapist 명사/ˈθɛɹəpɪst/치료사, 세라피스트
unconscious 형용사/ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/잠재의식적, 무의식적
drawback 명사/ˈdɹɔˌbæk/결점
rational 형용사/ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/합리적
compel 동사/kəmˈpɛl/강요하다
facade 명사/fəˈsɑ(ː)d/정면, 파사드
paranoia 명사/ˌpæɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/편집병, 편집증
phobia 명사/ˈfoʊ.bi.ə/공포증
regress 동사/ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/퇴보하다
stumble 동사/ˈstʌmbəl/넘어질 뻔하다
cheerful 형용사/ˈt͡ʃɪɹfl̩/기쁘다
sarcasm 명사/ˈsɑːɹˌkæzəm/풍자
sabotage 명사/ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/사보타주, 방해공작
sleepy 형용사/ˈsliːpi/졸리다
psychiatrist 명사/ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/정신과의

영상에 나오는 구동사

단어뜻
cover up 동사감추다, 덮어버리다

이 영상의 문법

화자가 가장 많이 쓰는 문형을 영상 속 실제 표현과 함께 정리했습니다.

문형영상 속 표현
수동태 be + 과거분사 — 누가 하는지보다 무슨 일이 일어나는지에 초점be pushed · are terrified · cannot be healed
현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때have been · have endured · They've seen

주의할 발음

화자는 can't, we're, didn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 15번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.

  • “th” 소리: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, fathom /ˈfæðəm/, sympathetically /sɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/
  • “sh”와 “zh” 소리: unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, ghoulish /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/, nauseous /ˈnɔʃəs/, statistician /ˌstætɪsˈtɪʃn̩/
  • 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, administer /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stə/, exemplary /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/, paranoia /ˌpæɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/, sympathetically /sɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/

한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:

  • /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: transference /tɹænsˈfəɹəns/, defenseless /dɪˈfɛnsləs/, facade /fəˈsɑ(ː)d/, fathom /ˈfæðəm/, phobia /ˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
  • /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: punitive /ˈpju.nɪ.tɪv/, relive /ɹiːˈlɪv/, alleviate /əˈli.vi.eɪt/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/, revolt /ɹɪˈvoʊlt/
  • /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: exemplary /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/, sarcasm /ˈsɑːɹˌkæzəm/, propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/

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  2. 보통 속도로 한 문장씩 섀도잉하고, 화자의 리듬과 맞을 때까지 반복합니다.
  3. 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, therapist, unconscious, drawback 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.

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