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Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? by smt88 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @12:39AM (#17528856)
Outcomes are meaningless without control groups. The providers you spoke to may not have stunning reversals of illness to show you, but keeping someone from sliding into a worse state is an important function of therapy and impossible to measure. For all you know, they may have prevented dozens of suicides that year.
Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? by nyolfen on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:02AM (#17528913)
for all we know they exacerbated their patients symptoms
Re:Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy? by smt88 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:22AM (#17528967)
Well, from the comment I was responding to, the implication I took from "no great outcomes" was "no great change, either positive or negative". But technically, yes, you're right.