03-07-2015 16:00 via theguardian.com

Why CBT is falling out of favour

‘Researchers have found that CBT is roughly half as effective in treating depression as it used to be’Everybody loves cognitive behavioural therapy. It’s the no-nonsense, quick and relatively cheap approach to mental suffering – with none of that Freudian bollocks, and plenty of scientific backing. So it was unsettling to learn, from a paper in the journal Psychological Bulletin, that it seems to be getting less effective over time. After analysing 70 studies conducted between 1977 and 2
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