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I have to mention something else which makes me hesitant on the shrinks. Studies have shown about the same rate of cure, or significant amelioration of condition, in all of the talking therapies, regardless of school, and that rate, which is barely over 10%, is low enough to suggest that a placebo effect may be at work. Therefore, it may be that all of these folk, while providing interesting speculations, have little to offer therapeutically. I continue to include Freud, in spite of the fact that I think his theories are dubious, because his initial work helped in pointing out the eruptions of the unconscious in everyday life, and in pointing to the conflict between instinctual life and socialization, unleashed powerful speculative currents. After that, I am not so sure..... |
