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“Junk medicine”: UK debates cognitive behavior therapy

by djbaxter on November 4, 2006

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Tagged as: CBT, cognitive behavior therapy, mental health care, politics of health care, psychotherapy, research-based therapy

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Brian November 21, 2006 at 2:57 pm

I couldn’t agree more. It scared me when I was first reading it and I thought that you had wrote it. CBT is not just a “talking therapy” and this quote, “CBT therapists believe they need only to produce evidence that one person does love you for you to be proved wrong and for your behaviour to change,” shows a profound misunderstanding of CBT.

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