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Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? by 0xcde4c3db on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:20PM (#17528612)
A1. Independently of their efficacy, each school's explanations of how their therapy approach works range from plausible-but-unproven (some aspects of some CBT approaches) to blatant pseudoscience (EMDR, psychoanalysis). Many constructs used to describe personality and behavior are little more than ad hoc descriptions with no grounding in a more general theory.
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Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? by laretluval on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:52AM (#17528883)
This is also true for many other branches of medicine.
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Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? by 0xcde4c3db on Saturday July 14, 2018 @10:06AM (#17530398)
Many explanations of medical issues and treatments lack accuracy or explanatory power, sure. Doctors disagree all the time on diagnosis and treatment. But in psychotherapy it's like having a neurologist tell you that your diabetes is caused by compression of a lumbar nerve while a gastroenterologist tells you that it's caused by an intestinal obstruction.
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