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I'm not sure I will ever find help having been given too little too late by a socially grossly neglectful society and psych science in it infancy that isn't held accountable for results...The black hole money pit of therapy (from my chronically un and under employed perspective) is just one more con game until they PROVE IT!

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There have been dozens of studies on the efficacy of psychotherapy, down, and they support the idea that therapy works. (The meta-analysis shows that the average person who gets psychotherapy is better off than about 77% of those who don't, regardless of their diagnosis or problem.) It doesn't work for everybody, and it doesn't make everyone who tries it 100% better. (Neither do most medical treatments.) For most people it does some good. I think there are lots of things that therapy can't do and I admire therapists who are honest enough to tell clients when something "isn't their job".

How would you hold therapists more accountable for results? What does "scientific accountability" mean to you?