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A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people they might have had in early trials. Rollin
by tfgg 10y ago
A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people they might have had in early trials. Rolling it out further beyond that group had lower success rates.
The additional the article raises about lower standards of training as it scales is also an interesting one, and could possibly apply further to other fashionable "therapies" in things such as fitness and project management.
- bcjordan 10y ago> A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people they might have had in early trials. Rolling it out further beyond that group had lower success rates. That would seem to be a testable hypothesis that would make for a great finding if it was seen to be true.
- thrwy1287 10y ago>> A doctor I spoke to about CBT said he thought CBT was effective for the relatively intelligent, introspective people That makes sense to me. From my experience you have to be willing to take small events in your life and read into them/pull them apart in great detail. If you can't understand the root issue (the reason you react to your thoughts/feelings in a certain way) by examining your thoughts in that way then you can't really put into practice the basic tenets of CBT. Maybe it depends on the therapist but from my perspective it seemed like quite an intellectual way of dealing with your problems.