THERAPY OR MEDICATION? 
Marie Petit (1) speaks in these terms:
"The mental suffering is essentially generated by the impotence in face of events one feels victim: bereavement, divorce, aging, abandonment, unemployment, illness, inability to communicate, death anxiety, etc..
Most often, the answer to these moments of crisis is the repetition of learned responses during early childhood - anger, depression, running away from reality, etc.. - Not finding ways to be more suitable.
this suffering, the medicine makes a drug response that distances the symptom. This is essential in times of crisis, but leaves unchanged the position of the patient cope with life's challenges, and maintains the passivity.
The answer offered psychotherapy is not only an increase in knowledge about itself, but also a development of self-consciousness, its boundaries, its issues and unaware of its potential, causing the person to become an author of his life.
is a slow and sometimes difficult process that requires the active participation of the person and that of a partner formed for this purpose: the psychotherapist.
Whatever the envisaged therapeutic approach, any attempt by various methods, to update ways to be inappropriate - remnants of childhood experiences of the patient - and her foster exploration new ways ".
So it's not - as many now say psychiatrists and clinical psychologists - simply a technique to learn and apply.
(1) One of his books: gestalt therapy, the here and now
