Reddit reviews House of Cards

Yes it is deeply flawed most therapy has no more effect than a conversation with a good friend, read House of Cards by Robyn Dawes.

You should read House of Cards by Robin Dawes.

> What is your take on therapy? Is it useful in any sense? Does it matter on whether a female or male therapist is involved?

A therapist is probably no better than any other person.

>> Dawes (social and decision sciences, Carnegie Mellon Univ.) presents a strong argument, based on empirical research, that psychotherapy is largely a shill game. He argues that while studies have shown that empathetic therapy is often helpful to people in emotional distress, there is no evidence that licensed psychologists or psychiatrists are any better at performing therapy than minimally trained laypeople.

However, those are averages. There may be truly gifted people who can offer deep insight. They'd be hard to find among the tens of thousands of useless psych degrees awarded yearly though.

> What about women who don't want kids?

Broken or lying. Perhaps also to herself.

It's sad Grünbaum isn't better known these days.

I only heard of him a few years ago - I picked up a copy of Observation and Theory in Science on the cheap. It's a collection of from the "Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Lectures, 1969" (say that five times fast) he did with Nagel and Sylvain Bromberger.

By the way, how goes the review process on your article?

Edit: I grew up with a psychiatrist in the house, was introduced to Popper's work at a very young age, read Robyn Dawes' House of Cards ... I know what you mean.

http://www.amazon.com/House-Cards-Robyn-Dawes/dp/0684830914/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1342566523&sr=8-2&keywords=robyn+dawes

A book on this subject is "House of Cards" by Robyn Dawes (1996). From an editorial on the Amazon page:

>Dawes (social and decision sciences, Carnegie Mellon Univ.) presents a strong argument, based on empirical research, that psychotherapy is largely a shill game. He argues that while studies have shown that empathetic therapy is often helpful to people in emotional distress, there is no evidence that licensed psychologists or psychiatrists are any better at performing therapy than minimally trained laypeople. Nor are psychologists or psychiatrists any better at predicting future behavior than the average person--a disturbing conclusion when one contemplates the influence such "experts" have on the U.S. judicial system. While other books have criticized the psychologizing of our society, none has been so sweeping or so convincingly argued. This book raises such important societal issues that all academic and public libraries have a duty to make a permanent place for it on their shelves.