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Seriously? There's so much it's overwhelming, CBT on its own has been proven so many times through RCT's to be better than any anti-depressant / anxiety medication.
bluebikerider-
Seriously? There's so much it's overwhelming, CBT on its own has been proven so many times through RCT's to be better than any anti-depressant / anxiety medication.
It has been "proven" according to the deeply biased opinions of CBT proponents. No reputable study has shown it to be better than the placebo effect in the long term (and in the short term almost any therapy which gives close attention to a patient can be shown to give short term benefits, including "past life regression". News flash: NHS practitioners of evidence-based medicine are often too over-burdened to give the same attention to their patients as privately funded witch doctors. In the short term, witch doctors can make a patient feel better. When they relapse in the long term the genuine doctors get the blame.)
itsbruce
At the risk of sounding like a CBT cynic, which I'm really not, I wonder how much quality evidence exists about CBT use alone, particularly when CBT and drugs are usually used simultaneously (esp for more severe conditions)?