Thank you practicing the rationalist virtue of scholarship Christian. I was not aware of this paper.
You will have to excuse me for practicing rationalist vice and not believing nor investigating further this paper. I have been so traumatized by the repeated failures of non-hard science, I reject most social science papers as causally confounded p-hacked noise unless it already confirms my priors or is branded correct by somebody I trust.
As far as this particular paper goes I just searched for one on the point in Google Scholar.
I’m not sure what you believe about Spencer Greenberg but he has two interviews with people who believe that therapist skills (where empathy is one of the academic findings) matter:
We see it reflected in RCTs. One aspect of therapist quality is for example therapist empathy and empathy is a predictor for treatment outcomes.
The style of therapy does not seem to be important according to RCTs but that doesn’t mean that therapist skill is irrelevant.
Thank you practicing the rationalist virtue of scholarship Christian. I was not aware of this paper.
You will have to excuse me for practicing rationalist vice and not believing nor investigating further this paper. I have been so traumatized by the repeated failures of non-hard science, I reject most social science papers as causally confounded p-hacked noise unless it already confirms my priors or is branded correct by somebody I trust.
As far as this particular paper goes I just searched for one on the point in Google Scholar.
I’m not sure what you believe about Spencer Greenberg but he has two interviews with people who believe that therapist skills (where empathy is one of the academic findings) matter:
https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/070/scott-miller-why-does-psychotherapy-work-when-it-works-at-all/
https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/192/david-burns-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-and-beyond/