QC

I suspect therapy methods work better the more you believe in and trust them. This means there's something harmful about studying how well therapy methods work and publicizing that information, which is that they can cause the methods to work less well.

Feeling trust and hope in a therapy method is not a purely mental phenomenon, separated from the world. It has very real physical effects in your body; your autonomic nervous system is doing stuff, your muscle tension is doing stuff, etc.

Inspiration is actually healing; lack of inspiration may make the difference between a therapy method (or whatever else) making progress or not. That's not something I used to appreciate at all.