In Cognitive Behavior Therapy, there a strong focus on measuring the level of depression of the person who’s coming to the sessions. Cognitive Therapist now tried different approaches of treating depression and believe in making decisions based on what interventions succeed in reducing the scores of someones level of depression.
A Freudian would tell you, that he doesn’t really care about the score but that he cares that the person just feels better and succeeds in dealing with his childhood traumas.
The gist of the research though, is that while historically Freudian therapists have taken this approach, more recently many Freudian therapists have actually started performing the same sort of research on the effects of their therapy that Cognitive Behavioral Therapists have, and received essentially the same results. It’s not that there isn’t evidence to support Cognitive Behavioral Therapy working, but rather, more recent evidence seems to suggest that when they do gather the relevant data, other forms of therapy appear to work equally well. So it appears that the things about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that actually work are not things that are specific to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but rather, are general qualities of therapy provided by a trained practitioner.
The gist of the research though, is that while historically Freudian therapists have taken this approach, more recently many Freudian therapists have actually started performing the same sort of research on the effects of their therapy that Cognitive Behavioral Therapists have, and received essentially the same results.
No, the average Freudian therapist doesn’t focus on the measurement on a scale but rather takes a more holistic approach.
Yes, you can run a controlled test where you pit Freudian therapists against Cognitive Behavioral Therapists and not find any difference in efficiency but that doesn’t mean that both classes value published evidence and an improvement on a numerical score the same way.
“Valuing published evidence” doesn’t necessarily equate to having a more correct theoretical framework though. Reality doesn’t grade for sentiment.
Cognitive behavioral therapists might on average be more relatable to Less Wrong members than Freudian therapists, but that doesn’t mean that prescriptions rooted in a cognitive behavioral model of the human mind are more likely to be correct or helpful.
Cognitive behavioral therapists might on average be more relatable to Less Wrong members than Freudian therapists, but that doesn’t mean that prescriptions rooted in a cognitive behavioral model of the human mind are more likely to be correct or helpful.
Yes. But if even the theory that most likely to be relatable to Less Wrong members get’s voted down because the whole emotion business is just to strange, that’s sad.
The gist of the research though, is that while historically Freudian therapists have taken this approach, more recently many Freudian therapists have actually started performing the same sort of research on the effects of their therapy that Cognitive Behavioral Therapists have, and received essentially the same results. It’s not that there isn’t evidence to support Cognitive Behavioral Therapy working, but rather, more recent evidence seems to suggest that when they do gather the relevant data, other forms of therapy appear to work equally well. So it appears that the things about Cognitive Behavioral Therapy that actually work are not things that are specific to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but rather, are general qualities of therapy provided by a trained practitioner.
No, the average Freudian therapist doesn’t focus on the measurement on a scale but rather takes a more holistic approach.
Yes, you can run a controlled test where you pit Freudian therapists against Cognitive Behavioral Therapists and not find any difference in efficiency but that doesn’t mean that both classes value published evidence and an improvement on a numerical score the same way.
“Valuing published evidence” doesn’t necessarily equate to having a more correct theoretical framework though. Reality doesn’t grade for sentiment.
Cognitive behavioral therapists might on average be more relatable to Less Wrong members than Freudian therapists, but that doesn’t mean that prescriptions rooted in a cognitive behavioral model of the human mind are more likely to be correct or helpful.
Yes. But if even the theory that most likely to be relatable to Less Wrong members get’s voted down because the whole emotion business is just to strange, that’s sad.