Posted by Cam W. on February 20, 2001, at 8:45:46
In reply to Re: Apologies to Dick » Cam W., posted by dj on February 19, 2001, at 16:02:44
Sorry deej - I thought I had posted an apology to you yesterday, but obviously didn't hit confirm.
I had thought that the second to last paragraph was yours. It wasn't. There are quite a few journal articles on the efficacy of psychotherapy, but only the most recent ones (in the past couple of years) have been controlled trials. The jury is still out whether a combination of therapies (AD + psychotherapy) is better than monotherapies of either. I would imagine that controlling for psychotherapy would be tough, especially if the control group receives informal psychotherapy (eg from talking things over with a family member or close friend).
Again, sorry for the misread - Cam
> >dj had seemed to imply that not enough research went into psychotherapies because of the influence of major drug companies and I was >trying to say that the research has been done.
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> Cam,
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> I did NOT imply that but quoted Mr. O'Connor who does seem to indicate such. The excerpts I posted were from the first chapter of his book (at http://www.undoingdepression.com) so when you've a moment please first go read his entire excerpt from that chapter, check his references and reasoning and then refute his argument or not, as you so desire.
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> Sante!
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> dj
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