Re:We found only one-third of published psychology research ...
by omginternets on Friday November 06, 2015 @10:18AM
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>but therapy in general is an intensely personal experience.
And empirically speaking, psychoanalytic therapy has a piss-poor record in dealing with mental illness.
If you're looking for spiritual guidance, then maybe a psychoanalyst can help. If you're looking for clinical efficacy, they demonstrably don't.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to make a relevant Google Scholar query, but be careful not to confuse psychoanalysis with clinical psychology.
> for a lot of people the "literary theory" part is just as helpful.
Fine, but this is a conversation about psychology as a science.
And empirically speaking, psychoanalytic therapy has a piss-poor record in dealing with mental illness.
If you're looking for spiritual guidance, then maybe a psychoanalyst can help. If you're looking for clinical efficacy, they demonstrably don't.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to make a relevant Google Scholar query, but be careful not to confuse psychoanalysis with clinical psychology.
> for a lot of people the "literary theory" part is just as helpful.
Fine, but this is a conversation about psychology as a science.