Times Article

There's a Times article about some recent research that psychoanalytic psychotherapy works. Like the benefits of running and meditation, this is old news to me. Not that I'm against proving and exploring why something works, but that issue is dead for me. There's a lot of "evidence based practice" and analytic works turns it nose at that. I think there's room for everything, we are enriched by diversity. I found many many parallels between DBT and my institute training, though there are some profound differences. Anywho, check out this interesting article. Here's a quote from the article:

"The field has resisted scientific scrutiny for years, arguing that the process of treatment is highly individualized and so does not easily lend itself to such study. It is based on Freud’s idea that symptoms are rooted in underlying, often longstanding psychological conflicts that can be discovered in part through close examination of the patient-therapist relationship."