Our readingWhat is a korrent?
A therapy is only shown to be more effective if it is compared against another treatment intended to help, not against a control nobody expected to work.
Drawn from what Scott D. Miller said
What these subjects mean
EMDR Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: a trauma therapy in which the patient recalls a memory while moving their eyes from side to side. Recommended as a first-line PTSD treatment; whether the eye movements themselves do anything is still argued about.
Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.
CBT Cognitive behavioural therapy: brief, structured, usually delivered from a manual, and the most heavily trialled form of talking treatment.
design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.
Mental modelWhat counts as evidence
On the topicWhat makes psychotherapy work?under our view: The evidence behind the recommended methods is narrower than the label on them suggests