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The article is a review of the book, [Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Side of Science and Therapy,] (https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Gone-Wrong-Science-Therapy/dp/1627345280) by Tomasz Witkowski and Maciej Zatonski. They argue psychotherapy as not only profit driven but ineffective, and that it makes claims not supported by science.
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> Psychotherapeutic interventions in general have been remarkably unsuccessful. Only one of the many varieties of psychotherapy is supported by acceptable evidence: cognitive-behavioral therapy. There is no correlation between a therapist’s training or experience and patient outcomes. Amateurs get equal results. The benefits of psychotherapy may be no better than the benefits of talking to a friend; in a sense, psychotherapists are paid to act as friends, which could be considered a sort of prostitution.
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> The harms of therapy
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>Therapy can do real harm and can lead to suicide. It encourages dependence, false optimism, and externalized responsibility. Not one study of AA has ever shown it superior to any other approach for treating alcohol abuse, and in fact untreated patients have similar or better outcomes. Sexual misconduct by therapists has become so common that insurance companies have been refusing to insure them.
Psychology has two halves. Some of it is backed by science, some of it is pseudoscience masquerading as science.
Throughout the years academic psychology has been fraught with mistakes, frauds, abuses, and outright nonsense.
Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy
Written by: professors of psychology.