the claim that all empirically validated psychotherapies, regardless of their specific components, produce equivalent outcomes
I think when you aggregate the difference in effectiveness between different schools of therapies for different sorts of mental illnesses fades away. The reality is different schools of therapy are good for different types of illnesses, disorders or just unhappiness in general. I can see CBT being helpful in some cases. But I find the notion that someone, who has been abused for years during their developmental period, can be cured ... (read more)
I think when you aggregate the difference in effectiveness between different schools of therapies for different sorts of mental illnesses fades away. The reality is different schools of therapy are good for different types of illnesses, disorders or just unhappiness in general. I can see CBT being helpful in some cases. But I find the notion that someone, who has been abused for years during their developmental period, can be cured ... (read more)