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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

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Foundational Structure of Therapy and Ethical Implications
Personal Stories and Discussion
Psychology Research Study Quality, Inadequate Justification for Therapy, Perverse Incentives, and Harmful Outcomes
Pop Quiz – What can we learn from an intervention study?
http://blog.dansimons.com/2013/07/pop-quiz-what-can-we-learn-from.html

Psychology must learn a lesson from fraud case
http://www.nature.com/news/psychology-must-learn-a-lesson-from-fraud-case-1.9513

It’s time for psychologists to put their house in order
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/feb/27/psychologists-bmc-psychology

The mystery of the missing experiments
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-mystery-of-the-missing-experiments
Replication studies: Bad copy
In the wake of high-profile controversies, psychologists are facing up to problems with replication.
http://www.nature.com/news/replication-studies-bad-copy-1.10634

Nice Results, But What Did You Expect?
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/09/nice-results-but-what-did-you-expect/

The Pervasive Problem With Placebos in Psychology
Why Active Control Groups Are Not Sufficient to Rule Out Placebo Effects
http://pps.sagepub.com/content/8/4/445.full

Pop Quiz – What can we learn from an intervention study?
http://blog.dansimons.com/2013/07/pop-quiz-what-can-we-learn-from.html

Is psychotherapy for depression any better than a sugar pill?
http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2013/06/25/is-psychotherapy-for-depression-any-better-than-a-sugar-pill/

Comparison of psychotherapies for adult depression to pill placebo control groups: a meta-analysis
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=1E9EF819F3036E1B0C480ED60C0D14FB.journals?fromPage=online&aid=8878341

A Systematic Review of Comparative Efficacy of Treatments and Controls for Depression
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3408478/
Trust the Results, Not the Conclusions
http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/trust-the-results-not-the-conclusions

Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration
Open letter: We must encourage scientific journals to accept studies before the results are in
http://m.guardiannews.com/science/blog/2013/jun/05/trust-in-science-study-pre-registration
Efficacy of cognitive–behavioural therapy and other psychological treatments for adult depression: meta-analytic study of publication bias
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/196/3/173.short

Why Bogus Therapies Often Seem to Work
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/altbelief.html

Why Bogus Therapies Seem to Work
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/why_bogus_therapies_seem_to_work/
The Burden of Proof in Healthcare
http://whereistheburdenofproof.wordpress.com/
The burden of proof (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KayBys8gaJY
Placebo Effects: Psychology’s Fundamental Flaw? Why active controls are not enough
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/placebo-effects-psychologys-fundamental-flaw-why-active-controls-are-not-enough
“Strong evidence” for a treatment evaporates with a closer look: Many psychotherapies are similarly vulnerable.
http://blogs.plos.org/mindthebrain/2012/11/26/strong-evidence-for-a-treatment-evaporates-with-a-closer-look-many-psychotherapies-are-similarly-vulnerable/
Re-examining Significant Research: The Problem of False-Positives
http://bigthink.com/artful-choice/re-examining-significant-research-the-problem-of-false-positives

The statistical significance scandal: The standard error of science?
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-statistical-significance-scandal-the-standard-error-of-science
Mind Games: Psychological Warfare Between Therapists and Scientists
http://wthrockmorton.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mind20games.pdf
Get Shrunk at Your Own Risk
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/06/17/get-shrunk-at-your-own-risk.html

When it’s bad to talk
As evidence grows that anti-depressant drugs are ineffective, more of us are likely to turn to psychotherapy. But, as Kate Hilpern reports, counselling can mean being traumatised again
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/11/mentalhealth.healthandwellbeing

When Counseling is Dangerous
Psychological debriefing after disasters may do more harm than good.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-open-mind/201001/when-counseling-is-dangerous-0
Therapy can drive you mad, finds study on counselling given to 9/11 survivors
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020699/Therapy-drive-mad-finds-study-counselling-9-11.html
Psychological debriefing for preventing post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12076399

Escaping from the past of disaster psychology
http://mindhacks.com/2011/09/10/escaping-from-the-past-of-disaster-psychology/

Randomised controlled trial of psychological debriefing for victims of acute burn trauma
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9328501

Review in The Guardian Newspaper:  A sickness called therapy 
http://tanadineen.com/MEDIA/Guardian.htm

Manufacturing Victims
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2171864.Manufacturing_Victims

Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/1552070328/R3D9C56KT87A6H?cursor=1&sort=sd

The Therapy Industry: The Irresistible Rise of the Talking Cure, and Why It Doesn’t Work
http://www.amazon.com/The-Therapy-Industry-Irresistible-ebook/dp/B00DCRL2Q4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

Pseudoscience and Psychotherapy
Fringe Psychotherapies:  The Public At Risk
http://www.sram.org/media/documents/uploads/article_pdfs/5-2-01.Beyerstein.pdf
The Moving Goalposts of Mental Illness
http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/the-moving-goalposts-of-mental-illness

The Real Problems With Psychiatry
A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry’s “bible” that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous politics and bureaucracy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/the-real-problems-with-psychiatry/275371/

Psychiatry’s Guide Is Out of Touch With Science, Experts Say
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/health/psychiatrys-new-guide-falls-short-experts-say.html?emc=eta1

Prevalence, Correlates, and Treatment of Lifetime Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents 
Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1555602

Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/

The Milgram Obedience Experiment
The Perils of Obedience
http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/milgram.htm

Stanford prison experiment
Zimbardo experiment shows the harm “good” people can cause by applying asymmetrical disempowering labels/roles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

An Epidemic of Willful Blindness: Savile, Armstrong, LIBOR, HSBC…
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/margaret-heffernan-/jimmy-savile-epidemic-of-wilful-blindness_b_2044966.html

The Lake Wobegon Effect
http://www.psychotherapy.net/blog/title/the-lake-wobegon-effect

Michal Lambert on preventing treatment failures (and why you’re not as good as you think):
Dr. Michael Lambert’s groundbreaking work on tracking client outcomes has revealed a huge blindspot for psychotherapists: We don’t notice when our patients are getting worse. But he’s got the solution if you’re willing to try something new.
http://www.psychotherapy.net/interview/preventing-treatment-failures-lambert

How To Tell If Your Therapist Is Crazy (Part One)
http://ironshrink.com/2007/08/how-to-tell-if-your-therapist-is-crazy-part-one/

How To Tell If Your Therapist Is Crazy (Part Two)
http://ironshrink.com/2007/09/how-to-tell-if-your-therapist-is-crazy-part-two/

Why Shrinks Have Problems
Suicide, stress, divorce — psychologists and other mental health professionals may actually be more screwed up than the rest of us.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200909/why-shrinks-have-problems

Therapy Beyond Modernity: Deconstructing and Transcending Profession-Centred Therapy
http://www.amazon.com/Therapy-Beyond-Modernity-Profession-Centred-ebook/dp/B005ML0CWI/ref=tmm_kin_title_0

Therapy is all talk
A new book argues that psychotherapy is better at recycling cultural myths than figuring out what’s in your head.
http://www.salon.com/1999/04/06/therapys_delusions/

Is Psychotherapy Superstition?
http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2007/05/10/is-psychotherapy-superstition/

Breaking Away From the Cult
Final Analysis:  The Making and Unmaking of a Psychoanalyst.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/21/books/breaking-away-from-the-cult.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
The Trouble With Talk Therapy
“What brand is your therapist?” Exploring the latest marketing trend among psychotherapists.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/27/can-branding-save-talk-therapy/

Against Therapy
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0006373879/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

Is The Rest Of The World ‘Crazy Like Us’?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122490928

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Us-Globalization-ebook/dp/B00321OR8K/ref=tmm_kin_title_0
Destructive Patterns In Asymmetrical Therapy (and Other) Relationships
The asymmetrical dynamics in power-imbalanced relationships in which a person is devalued/dehumanized and dependency is fostered and exploitation follows is rampant in therapy relationships. The inherent structure of the relationship, the one-way intimacy, and surrounding secrecy lends itself to emotional abuse. As with domestic violence, it’s a problem that people prefer to look away from and no one wants to think about or admit exists. There will continue to be more therapy victims until we’re ready to really take a look, and take action.
Inverse Correlation Between Happiness and Therapy
“The single most important factor in living a happy and fulfilled life was love. … The people with close friends and family were the happiest.”
http://yourbrainatwork.org/what-it-takes-to-live-a-happy-life-a-harvard-study-answers-the-question/
“Data indicate that when reporting therapists make inferences about [clients'] significant others, they predominantly couch them in critical terms. These results also suggest that blame-and-change maneuvers are alive and well in psychotherapy. When therapists disregard the strengths and resources of their clients’ significant others, they may resort to the therapeutic relationship as their primary vehicle for treatment.”
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/pst/29/3/474/
“Strikingly, more than half of them were getting therapy before or during the period when they became suicidal. Some clinicians e-mailed Nock to express anger that he would make such statistics public. Their position, he said, was that if you tell people treatment’s not effective [or increases suicide], they’ll stop coming.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/magazine/the-suicide-detective.html?pagewanted=8&_r=0
http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1555602
Personal Stories and Discussion
On Mutual/Reciprocal Vulnerability, Openness, Connection, and Wholeheartedness
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they [both] feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” ― Brené Brown
“One of the greatest barriers to connection is … we’ve divided the world into “those who offer help” and “those who need help.” The truth is that we are both.” ― Brene Brown
Ethics
“Always act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, at the same time as an end-in-itself and never merely as a means.” — Immanuel Kant
http://www.faculty.umb.edu/lawrence_blum/courses/465_11/readings/Kant%27s_Formula_of_Humanity.pdf
“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” — Immanuel Kant
http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3201869/Korsgaard_KantForumulaUniversalLaw.pdf?sequence=2
“Every time you do an activity, or have a thought, you are changing a piece of yourself into something slightly different than it was before.
… a human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself. When we evaluate our friends, we don’t just measure the consequences of their lives. We measure who they intrinsically are. We don’t merely want to know if they have done good. We want to know if they are good.” — David Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/opinion/brooks-the-way-to-produce-a-person.html?src=me&ref=general
Two Beautiful Little Stories About The Meaning of Life
Miscellaneous Links for Fun and Inspiration
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