Posted by SLS on April 6, 2006, at 9:43:54
All of a sudden, psychotherapy is as effective as drug therapy for treating depression!
That's right.
Just look at the medical literature.
Less than a decade ago, nearly all of the double-blind studies demonstrated a clear advantage to drug therapy over psychotherapy for treating depression.
Now, it is difficult to find such studies. Most of the current literature claims equal effectiveness between the two modes of treatment.
How can this be?
Can it be that the emergence of CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) as the psychotherapeutic treatment of choice has drastically improved the response rate to psychotherapy?
Have current investigations defined depression in a different way than they did ten years ago?
Have the rating methods or measurement standards that define treatment success changed?
Is there a backlash against using drugs to treat depression to be found in the field of psychiatric investigation?
A little of all the above?
What's going on?
- Scott
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