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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by jawerty on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @10:59AM (#6134141)
I highly doubt the problems people have who attend online Psychotherapy are the same as the face-to-face interactions. Not to discredit any patients (at all) but it takes a different type of person to get analyzed in person than it does via the Internet.
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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by AndrewDucker on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:22PM (#6135798)
In this case the people were randomly assigned to either face-to-face or internet counselling, in order to prevent that bias having an effect.
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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by PavlovsCat on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @11:21AM (#6134340)
it takes a different type of person to get analyzed in person than it does via the Internet

Can you elaborate on that?

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Re:Psychotherapy via Internet found as good as or better tha... by llamataboot on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:16PM (#6135275)
This sounds like online counseling, not actual psychotherapy. But subjects were randomly assigned so shouldn't be any self-selection bias going on.
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