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We’ve been testing therapy like it’s a pill – and some patients are paying the price
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An article examining why cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) has become the dominant form of therapy in public and private healthcare systems, despite the existence of many alternative therapeutic approaches, and questioning whether this standardised approach serves all patients effectively.
We’ve been testing therapy like it’s a pill – and some patients are paying the price
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If you’ve had therapy, particularly if you got it through a public healthcare system like the NHS in the UK or Medicare in Australia, there’s a good chance it was cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Even with private health insurance, if you want therapy, the one you are most likely to be recommended is CBT.
This is quite strange when you consider how many types of therapy there are. Psychoanalysis is well known, but there’s also humanistic therapy, exist
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