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psychotherapy

  1. Sly Saint
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    Cochrane Review: Psychological therapies for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with long‐term physical conditions (2018) - Thabrew +

    Abstract Background Long‐term physical conditions affect 10% to 12% of children and adolescents worldwide. These individuals are at greater risk...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jan 10, 2019, 1 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  2. Cheshire
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    When a Placebo Is Not a Placebo: Problems and Solutions to the Gold Standard in Psychotherapy Research (2018) Blease et al.

    Randomized placebo-controlled trials are recognized as the gold-standard of evidence-based medicine but when it comes to psychotherapy research...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Nov 26, 2018, 16 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  3. Sly Saint
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    Horses for courses: choosing an evidence-based psychological therapy for your patient, 2018, David McCormack, Trudie Chalder

    Don't have access to the full article: BJPsych Advances: Volume 24, Issue 6 November 2018 , pp. 402-411 Horses for courses: choosing an...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Oct 26, 2018, 15 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
  4. Cheshire
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    The cumulative effect of reporting and citation biases on the apparent efficacy of treatments: the case of depression (2018) de Vries et al.

    Evidence-based medicine is the cornerstone of clinical practice, but it is dependent on the quality of evidence upon which it is based....
    Thread by: Cheshire, Aug 22, 2018, 0 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  5. Andy
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    Chronic pain often has no physical cause. Psychotherapy can reduce the suffering.

    Right, of course it can.. ;) There are 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain, and an unknown number of them are like Golson, with...
    Thread by: Andy, May 17, 2018, 14 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  6. Andy
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    Medscape: Commentary - Psychotherapy Is 'The' Biological Treatment

    Posting for the insight it provides into psychotherapists thinking. Neuroscience surprisingly teaches us that not only is psychotherapy purely...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 18, 2018, 17 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  7. Andy
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    Guardian: "'France is 50 years behind': the 'state scandal' of French autism treatment"

    Good old psychs, making the world worse for whoever they can get their hands on. :mad: (OK, there must be some good ones, I'll admit that, I just...
    Thread by: Andy, Feb 8, 2018, 3 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  8. Andy
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    James Coyne: "When psychotherapy trials have multiple flaws…"

    Multiple flaws pose more threats to the validity of psychotherapy studies than would be inferred when the individual flaws are considered...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 12, 2018, 9 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  9. Cheshire
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    Freud Was a Fraud: A Triumph of Pseudoscience

    Article about Freud's profound dishonesty and the total lack of scientificity of his work. Nothing really new, but these quotes about his work on...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Dec 18, 2017, 38 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  10. Cheshire
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    Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims

    by Jonathan Shedler Ph.D. Some very interesting remarks about psychotherapy RCTs (many relevant to CFS trials). But I worry some people would...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Dec 8, 2017, 10 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  11. Cheshire
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    #UnderstandingPsychosis?

    Article critic of a BPS (British Psychology Society) controversial report on psychosis. There are familiar flaws: incomplete definition, wilful...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Oct 31, 2017, 3 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
  12. Cheshire
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    Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy the Gold Standard for Psychotherapy?

    Falk Leichsenring, DSc and Christiane Steinert, PhD For a treatment to be considered the gold standard requires that substantial supporting...
    Thread by: Cheshire, Oct 29, 2017, 60 replies, in forum: Health News and Research unrelated to ME/CFS
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