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You're overthinking this. This is a medical profession in its early stages, but it does do actual research on its methods (see e.g. TFA) and it does produce pra

You're overthinking this. This is a medical profession in its early stages, but it does do actual research on its methods (see e.g. TFA) and it does produce practitioners who produce better average results than zero intervention.

phkahler 9y ago
>> You're overthinking this. This is a medical profession in its early stages, but it does do actual research on its methods (see e.g. TFA) and it does produce practitioners who produce better average results than zero intervention. Therapists are NOT medical professionals. There is research, but as we've seen in recent years, most of it is crap - see articles on p-values and meta analysis. The do produce some practitioners who produce better average results than zero intervention. They have also documented (if you believe their research) that some people are made worse by therapists. They seem to have a selection bias in their results too, anyone who dropped out is not included in results. It can help. I've seen it help people. But there is no overthinking the selection of a therapist, they are not all the same by a long shot. Nor is their training and preferred modality of "treatment" the same - in fact some are contraindicated for certain conditions by some.