Shadowing Practice: How Psychotherapy Works - Learn English Speaking with Video
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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.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “How Psychotherapy Works”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: psychotherapy, therapist, patient, relationship, therapy. Deze video bevat 71 zinnen en 1012 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 7:15. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 140 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. Slechts 77% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| psychotherapy zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/ | psychotherapie |
| therapist zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/ | therapeut, therapeute |
| unconscious bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/ | bewusteloos |
| bore werkwoord | /boɹ/ | vervelen |
| thereby bijwoord | /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/ | daarbij |
| rational bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/ | rationeel, redelijk |
| compel werkwoord | /kəmˈpɛl/ | bedwingen |
| dangerously bijwoord | gevaarlijk | |
| defenseless bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /dɪˈfɛnsləs/ | weerloos |
| exemplary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/ | voorbeeldig |
| facade zelfstandig naamwoord | /fəˈsɑ(ː)d/ | gevel, façade |
| fathom werkwoord | /ˈfæðəm/ | begrijpen, bevroeden |
| nauseous bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈnɔʃəs/ | misselijkmakend |
| outstrip werkwoord | /ˌaʊtˈstɹɪp/ | overtreffen, overvleugelen |
| paranoia zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌpæɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/ | paranoia |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| set up werkwoord | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | bereiden, voorbereiden |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | be pushed · are terrified · cannot be healed |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | have been · have endured · They've seen |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 15 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals can't, we're, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, fathom /ˈfæðəm/, sympathetically /sɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, ghoulish /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/, nauseous /ˈnɔʃəs/, statistician /ˌstætɪsˈtɪʃn̩/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, administer /ədˈmɪn.ɪ.stə/, exemplary /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/, paranoia /ˌpæɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/, sympathetically /sɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: facade /fəˈsɑ(ː)d/, punitive /ˈpju.nɪ.tɪv/, relive /ɹiːˈlɪv/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, plead /pliːd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: drawback /ˈdɹɔˌbæk/, transference /tɹænsˈfəɹəns/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, fathom /ˈfæðəm/, paranoia /ˌpæɹ.əˈnɔɪ.ə/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: exemplary /ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/, ghoulish /ˈɡuː.lɪʃ/, regress /ˈɹiːˌɡɹɛs/, disgust /dɪsˈɡʌst/, singular /ˈsɪŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als psychotherapy, therapist, unconscious.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.