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What Jonathan Shedler thinks about CBT

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. Author of the 2010 meta-analysis that established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment, and a persistent critic of how the phrase "evidence-based therapy" is used.

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  1. Our reading"Evidence-based therapy" is a branding term rather than a scientific one, and in practice it is a code word for "not psychodynamic".

    Their wordsThe term "evidence-based therapy" is also, de facto, a code word for "not psychodynamic."

    ↗Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com

    PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapy

    Interesting

  3. Our readingNo research ever showed manualized CBT to be more effective than psychodynamic therapy; it was only studied more often.

    Their wordsNo research ever suggested that manualized CBT was more effective than psychodynamic therapy. It was just more often researched. There is a world of difference between saying a treatment is less often researched and saying it has been scientifically discredited.

    ↗Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com

    PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapy

    Interesting