And on a totally different topic, I read these blog posts and thought they were interesting (though I don't like his writing style - too much "guess what?" and stuff like that). In fact, they made me think of stopdog, because you sometimes express frustration with not knowing what the talk therapy process is good for. There is an actual physiological process, with actual physiological change happening:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-talking-cure