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To: Win Smith who wrote (626)	8/24/2001 8:38:59 PM
From: E	Respond to of 51717

That all sounds right. I read an article once that reported a study that said that plain therapy had about the same 'cure' rate as the passage of time, that drugs were better than no treatment, but that the most effective, the treatment better than placebo or drugs or just the passage of time, was a combination of meds and cognitive therapy. I assume a good shrink is a lot better than the passage of time. I know lots of people who swear by their therapy, and one of my three best friends is a psychoanalyst, and she's so damn smart about people it's dazzling; but my sister got into the hands of a bad one (bad for her anyway) and I learned how really destructive bad can be. Edit: Oddly my friend is brilliant about others, but just a regular f-d up standard person, average and human, in her insight about herself and her family, I think. It always surprises me. But sometimes she refers jokingly to her family being 'dysfunctional,' (a gross hyperbole, they're wonderful, if eccentric), so I guess she sees things she doesn't know what to do about.