My biggest complaint is studies being inadequately placebo-controlled. It's not just that studies often have no control group or a blatantly different control c

My biggest complaint is studies being inadequately placebo-controlled. It's not just that studies often have no control group or a blatantly different control condition (waitlist, pill placebo), it's that there's no consensus on how psychotherapy works. That means there's no agreed-upon approach for sham psychotherapy, and even assertions that it's impossible to do because virtually any therapy-like experience already contains most of the beneficial elements (cf. [1]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_factors_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_factors_theory