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I'm more opposed to the enormous amounts of time and money, balanced against the paucity of evidence that it does anything positive for the patient. Yeah, the

I'm more opposed to the enormous amounts of time and money, balanced against the paucity of evidence that it does anything positive for the patient. Yeah, the patient often feels like it's helping. But that's true of joining a cult as well.

philosopher1234 4y ago
There is a risk of psychoanalysis being culty, skepticism can combat that. It is unfortunate that there hasn’t been more research, but I think you misrepresent the evidence, psychoanalysis’ efficacy is established: https://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%20(2010)%20Efficacy%20of%20Psychodynamic%20Psychotherapy.pdf https://jonathanshedler.com/PDFs/Shedler%20(2010)%20Efficacy...