Also very interesting: Post Qualification Training in Selective Ignorance http://www.midpsy.org/training_in_ignorance.doc http://www.midpsy.org/training_in_

Also very interesting: Post Qualification Training in Selective Ignorance http://www.midpsy.org/training_in_ignorance.doc http://www.midpsy.org/training_in_ignorance.doc Excerpts: "the assumption .. [is] that [CBT] represents a lucid treatment framework, founded upon a solid body of theory and research... [but] when this approach is examined from a historical perspective, it is revealed as a self-contradictory mishmash of psychiatric ideas, behavioural techniques, crude clinical pragmatism and post hoc justifications from the academic discipline of 'cognitive psychology' - or at least those bits of it that can be made to fit with the claims of the therapists. In other words, CBT is a 'tradition' rather than a distinct modality, owing most of its success to its appeal to a superficial rationalism and to the promise of delivering 'cheerful efficiency'" The papers presented in one of the conferences mentioned in the above report are collected in this book: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/195/6/557 http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/195/6/557