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Re:Should Mental Disorders Have Names? by vanderZwan on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:09AM (#19207513)
> The biggest advance in the history of psychotherapy was to stop asking why and start asking what and how.

> Rational emotive and cognitive behavioural therapists essentially argued I don't care why you're nuts, I just want to teach you how to be less nuts.

This is part of why schema therapy is getting so much attention right now: it takes CBT but combines why, what and how into a cohesive whole. The success rates seems to be even better than CBT, a lot better in some cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_therapy

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Re:Should Mental Disorders Have Names? by SolaceQuantum on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:24AM (#19207580)
It's interesting that a lot of the 'hot new thing' therapies are around Personality Disorders or PTSD. I'm curious what the theory is to apply this to depression or anxiety. And what about dissociastive disorders, or oppositional defiant disorder, or autism?
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Re:Should Mental Disorders Have Names? by vanderZwan on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:35AM (#19207641)
> oppositional defiant disorder

Tangent: I have a lot of skepticism about that one being a proper disorder on its own, in the same sense that I wouldn't consider "fever" an illness in and of its own, but a symptom of other illnesses.

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Re:Should Mental Disorders Have Names? by SolaceQuantum on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:50AM (#19207737)
I agree, but even then, should the symptom be treated with the same treatment designed for personality disorders? What is the evidence of it? etc. I genuinely don't know these things.
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