"When Psychotherapy Goes Wrong" (General article, not on ME/CFS)

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When Psychotherapy Goes Wrong
April 8, 2013
http://asserttrue.blogspot.ie/2013/04/when-psychotherapy-goes-wrong.html

This is about something I'm interested in:

While psychiatric drugs are required to undergo efficacy testing before being released to the public, no efficacy requirements are placed on non-drug therapies. Talk therapy is just assumed to work for most people, and new therapies are routinely rolled out willy-nilly on live patients with no oversight by anyone and no guarantee of safety, much less efficacy.

Don't be put off by the funnel plot; there is little math(s) in it.

It lists examples of interventions and some harms that have been associated with them.


(I can't remember where I came across this article so apologies if I'm not giving somebody credit)