Recent Research Showing Cbt Is Not As Effective As It Used To Be For Treating Depression

[ground crew]

The basics of both are in the book by Burns. Each chapter has the relevant stuff for a page or two and then the rest of the chapter is case study. I found the book very useful. and tf-cbt too!

 

[ms spock]

Well that is one of my new things today that I learnt about - trauma focussed CBT! Thanks @ground crew!

There are scholarly articles about it. I will read them later!

 

[Friday]

The old techniques weren’t completely wrong; they’d just outlived their usefulness. If the secret of happiness is hard to find, maybe that’s because the answer keeps changing.

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It's an interesting take (comparing psychoanalysis of the late 1800s to the switch to CB in the mid to late 1900s), although not exactly accurate.

Also a little misleading, since Cognitive Behavioral Psych (which didn't directly replace Psychoanalysis, there were a few other schools which were far more envogue in between: Behavioral Psych -what a lot of old horror flicks are based off of- being one, Humanist being another, Cognitive being a third)... Cognitive Behavioral Psych is an entire school of psychology (there are several dozen), of which CBT belongs to, but it's only one very small piece of it. The author skips somewhere between 50-100 some odd years in Psych History to get to & make that point. Eloquently. But still, one school replacing another school, is a bit different than 1 therapy replacing a whole school. Sort of like saying spinach has replaced food, instead of vegetables have replaced starches in the food pyramid.

I'm still reading through the exact study he's talking about. What I haven't found, yet, is the method for determining effectiveness then (seminal studies of CBT) vs now (this meta-analysis). I'm sure it's in here, it's the whole point of the study, but I'm processing things a bit slow right now.