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Originally Posted by Xynesthesia
"Science of the psyche" is basically experimental psychology and behavioral science. All these use statistics to analyze data, as well as basic neuroscience. Of course anyone versed in statistics can choose or design a model/test that will more likely to support their pet hypotheses. Well, almost. Statistics is based on math, but the models are highly subjective and can be manipulated easily.
I think the OP asked about science showing that psychotherapy works, so not only the negative outcomes.
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I'm embarrassed to admit it but I spent 6 years studying cognitive and experimental psychology in the 1990's. All the course work for a Ph.D., no general exam or dissertation. I quit when my husband was diagnosed with a terminal disease AND it became clear that finishing the degree would not provide me with anything I wanted anymore. I had entered the program originally because I was interested in psychology and thought I could use the degree as an add-on to my work in computer science, but really I just wanted to study psychology and have access to the university library so that I could try to learn more and find out what was "wrong" with me. Never found that although I did learn a lot of interesting stuff!
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Plus is there any scientific base that actually psychotherapy works?
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I do understand that a lot of people take the use of statistics to indicate that something is scientific, but there is still the fact that if something is "scientifically", statistically shown to have a "positive" effect for most people, for the average, it doesn't mean that it will have that effect on everyone.
Here are 2 articles I found when I searched for "treatment failure psychotherapy":
The Failure Rate of Psychotherapy: What it is and what we can do?
https://www.psychotherapy.net/interv...ilures-lambert