This is literally all that any therapeutic discipline has achieved. CBT is completely overhyped, for example. Results are... literally placebo.
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Well, when you put in the drug trial results that were witheld it turns out that a lot of drugs are in the nocebo side too.
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er, not nocebo, I forget the name for placebo but the drug has an effect noticeable to patient, just unrelated to what it's supposed to do
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A lot may also be related to practioner skill. One of my best friends is a psych, specializing in depression, gets good results, says more shrinks and almost all GPs mis-prescribe.
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Pretty much everything in psych is like that. Practitioners have worse professional training than e.g. doctors, and doctors fuck up all. the. time.
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It's almost like they're human beings prone to laziness, stubbornness and confirmation bias.
(Though many people don't have this impression.)
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It's not as bad as doctors having worse-than-expert-system diagnostic abilities on average, lol.
And in some cases worse than *chance*.