Why is therapy bad so often?
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collected some scattered thoughts here:
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@slatestarcodex post on therapy books all promising to bring about revolutionary change but all therapies seeming about equally okay in studies. i have many thoughts:
1. what if therapies start out effective but people adapt to them over time
slatestarcodex.com/2019/11/20/boo
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skimming back over this + the original SSC post and i think i am more confident in the "people develop resistance to therapy techniques" + "therapists get worse at passing them on" combination
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what this implies, quite regrettably, is that talking about e.g. IFS too much in public will eventually make it work worse 😬
in the sense that sufficiently good therapists wouldn't generate resistance? yeah
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*nods solemnly* those who know about IFS must be...
...exiled...
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Talking about it will likely lead to new modalities tho.
1: oh, no, my modality will stop working
2: hahaha modality creation machine go brrrrr