• DonPiano@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Pretty sure I remember a study that eclectic psychotherapy has lower efficacy than manual based psychotherapy, buts it been a few years…

    “However, this doesn’t mean everything he did was worthless.”

    Agreed - its popularity actively set back our collective understanding of the mind.

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      11 months ago

      That’s interesting. If accurate, it might be because manual based methods are designed to work as a whole, while fragments of certain methods only work in the context of the rest of the manual. I’d want more independent confirmation to trust the result myself though.