The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked.

What these subjects mean

Psychotherapy Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.

Trauma What overwhelming experience leaves behind, and whether it is stored in the body, the memory, or the loop between them.

On the topicWhat makes psychotherapy work?under our view: The evidence behind the recommended methods is narrower than the label on them suggests

What Jonathan Shedler actually said

Do you hold this korrent?Do you also believe this?

Cannot both be true

Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.

Alexander says somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating the nightmares directly. Shedler says the APA’s trauma guidelines should be ignored because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked — which is the category the recommended treatment sits in. One is following the guideline and the other says the evidence under it does not hold.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.