Soldiers returning from war zones, victims of violent crime and sexual abuse, can now be helped by cognitive behaviour therapy, where they learn to assign terrible memories to the past, instead of them crowding their present and futureI'm somewhat hesitant to believe, let alone trust any effort by a group that depends on the continuation of symptmology for it's paycheck to take up this effort on a wholesale basis.
Professor Devilly says the therapy is working.Is it just me, or is there an actual correlation between the number of sessions that the "average" MH health insurance policy will authorize and the number of sessions needed to achieve these results?
"We're now getting, at the end of between 8 and 12 sessions, 90 to 92 per cent of people no longer meet the criteria for PTSD," he said.
Now psychologists are working to fend off post traumatic stress in high-risk occupations, by teaching recruits to develop resilience.Uh huh. The average recruit into the all-volunteer military has personality characteristics so strikingly different from the rest of their compatriots in the general population that this goal is, IMHO, bordering on bringing coal to Newcastle.
In a briefing to the US Supreme Court, Professor Richard McNally from Harvard University described the theory of repressed memory as "the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry".
He maintains false memories can easily be created by inept therapists.
My Phrenologist claims that Psychology and Psychiatry are simply modern day Astrology and Alchemy.
;/ ;/ :lol: =D
No, that's forensic science, remember? :laugh:
Astrology grew into astronomy and alchemy into chemistry.
More like saying dodos grew into eagles.
Alchemy, according to some, was never about material transformation but rather a metaphor for spiritual evolution.
I read all about this once and then completely forgot about it :facepalm:
Don't you mean you repressed your memory of it, until some jackwagon therapist came along and reawakened the sleeping pygmy? [tinfoil]
stay safe.
Either way, I think I'm going to need some serious liquid counseling ;) =D
CBT is, according to Andrew Samuels, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Essex, "a coup, a power play by a community that has suddenly found itself on the brink of corralling an enormous amount of money. Science isn't the appropriate perspective from which to look at emotional difficulties. Everyone has been seduced by CBT's apparent cheapness."
For what it's worth, the casual use of CBT here in MT is to treat "bad behavior" such as drug abuse, depression, antisocial tendencies, etc. It's bunk.
I have no reason to believe that CBT is magically more useful in any other category, since the glut of data shows that it is mostly about the almighty dollar.
CBT ???
C ognitive B ehavioral T herapy.Dude, you like can't introduce new acronyms without like letting us know. That's just not right, man.
http://www.nacbt.org/whatiscbt.htm or http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=About_Treatments_and_Supports&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7952
stay safe.
Astrology grew into astronomy and alchemy into chemistry.I would say astronomy came first. You can't really use the stars to predict anything without some background of study. If you don't have the knowledge first, you might as well just be sun/moon worshipers or something.
There is hope contemporary forensic "science" will one day mature enough to sit at the "grown up" science table. Same with psychology.
Dude, you like can't introduce new acronyms without like letting us know. That's just not right, man.
Dude, you like can't introduce new acronyms without like letting us know. That's just not right, man.
And you probably do not want to Google "CBT" :O
CBT (http://www.cbt.net/), lol