CBT is effective for many people. What's unfortunate is that in some countries - including Sweden and, I think, the UK - it has become the Huge Hot Style which is recommended by officialdom for everybody. I think that is because it seems to be quantifiable: meet your T 12 times and learn new behaviours and you will become a productive member of society! (That's not all there is to CBT, I do know that. But it's how itis often presented.) And as I say, many times it is effective. But many times it's not, and there's a fierce idiological divide at many psychotherapy educational institutes, between cognitive behaviouralists and psychodynamic therapists - this is what it's like in Sweden anyway. That really can't be helpful for the patients.

Anyway, for me, psychodynamic therapy seems to be useful.