unhelpful beliefs and behaviours... ...misperceptions of effort... None of which have ever been demonstrated to exist in patients, let alone to...
New patients are typically uninformed and desperate, and that makes them easy pickings for the incompetent and the unscrupulous.
My son got better with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from a gifted therapist at King's College Hospital...
And the desperate, as most of us here have been at some point, especially early on, and made fools of ourselves, before we learned the real story....
And us. Thank you. :):hug:
It is a very seductive tale to the uninformed. So the relevance of trauma is...?
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And what if the hips also have other problems, like osteoarthritis?
I don't wish to write off all of psych. There are honourable exceptions. But the profession is collectively guilty of failing to pull their...
Time to start cranking up the lawsuits.
As is tradition for CBT, et al.
Let alone if it is intrinsically pathological, or even indicative of pathology elsewhere.
+1 Very good discussion.
Not a complete waste of time, but certainly a good measure of how poorly understood it all is. This.
Funding bodies and ethics committees are as much the problem as anybody. They could stop this nonsense overnight, if they wanted to.
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We can (and indeed must) accept the immediate realities before us, and all the limitations they impose upon us, without accepting that they will...
Psycho-tyranny.
Matching expectations and goals with limits and circumstances is necessary at a strictly practical level for everybody, not just patients. It is...
It is now beyond dispute that technical and ethical self-governance in the psych branch of medicine (especially psychosomatics) has broken down,...
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