NICE critique: a call for more research, not excuse for less treatment

NICE guidelines for psychotherapy were criticised last week. Clinical psychologist Lucy Maddox discusses their value in practice.Remember the deepest sadness you have ever felt and then try to imagine worse, a sadness which envelops you in hopelessness, makes getting out of bed seem impossible and makes you cry at the smallest things. Now try to remember a time when you felt amazing, like anything was possible, and go even bigger… Imagine a manic sense of importance and responsibility, li