The downsides of cognitive-behavioral therapy
Not everyone is enamored of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the favored treatment du jour for panic disorder, as this Times (U.K.) article details. To wit:
The fact that, in a relatively short period, CBT has produced an impressively positive research base must be qualified by the observation that because CBT is tasked with “symptom removal”, not “treatment of the whole person”, research has proved relatively easy and cheap to undertake. Setting out to measure whether someone has got rid of a single symptom (such as spider phobia) leads to only two relevant answers: yes or no. It is much more difficult to evaluate a therapy seeking to show whether you have gone from “greater” to “lesser” unhappiness but the experience in itself might prove...
...According to the most authoritative sources, at least half those patients receiving CBT for panic disorder had suffered relapse or sought new help after 24 months, which isn’t very cost effective.
The downsides of cognitive-behavioral therapy
Not everyone is enamored of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), the favored treatment du jour for panic disorder, as this Times (U.K.) article details. To wit: