It looks like psychiatry, especially psychotherapy, is bullshit to a far greater extent than what was discussed in this blog post: --- For real patients, ther

It looks like psychiatry, especially psychotherapy, is bullshit to a far greater extent than what was discussed in this blog post: --- For real patients, there is no evidence that the benefits of psychotherapy are greater than those of placebo treatment. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/an-analysis-of-psychotherapy-versus-placebo-studies/08C6F3704103BE1DE8737138D61BE66B https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain... (Prioleau 1983) Meta-analysis shows antidepressants to be more effective than psychotherapy. No significant difference between the studies with and those without a placebo condition. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26169475 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26169475 (Cuijpers 2015) Negative results in phase III trials of complex interventions https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/negative-results-in-phase-iii-trials-of-complex-interventions-cause-for-concern-or-just-good-science/188FDEFC70880724315045EC8D773AA2 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-... (Crawford 2016) Therapy experience in naturalistic observational studies is associated with negative changes in personality https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656616302410 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009265661... (Philip 2016) Does psychotherapy work? An umbrella review of meta‐analyses of randomized controlled trials finds only 7% of studies provided convincing evidence that psychotherapy is effective. These pertained to cognitive behavioural therapy (n = 6), meditation therapy (n = 1), cognitive remediation (n = 1), counselling (n = 1) and mixed types of psychotherapies (n = 7). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acps.12713?campaign=wolearlyview https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acps.12713?c... More experience and training do not improve outcome of psychotherapy. http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-46640-006 http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-46640-006 (Erekson 2017) Trauma and victimhood have also been way overstated, overlooking that most people recover from traumatic experiences; that duration and and frequency of trauma are uncorrelated with subsequent disorder. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735818300539 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027273581... (Küenzlen 2016) Young children emerge from single potentially traumatic events psychologically unharmed https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405629.2016.1150174 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17405629.2016.11... (Galatzer-Levy 2018) People with moderate life adversity have the fewest stress symptoms, are the most satisfied with life and the least affected by recent traumata. https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/2512-8442/a000011 https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/abs/10.1027/2512-8442/a0000... (Höltge 2018) How to spot hype in the field of psychotherapy: A 19-item checklist https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXZ75sEnpTpqExb_KP0buaL6V2yZagvE/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXZ75sEnpTpqExb_KP0buaL6V2y...