Monday 17 February 2014

Links from @Huwtube


Today Psychodiagnosticator (@Huwtube) posted this in his blog: 


Agendas and Anxieties: CBT for Psychosis


He begins like this: 
I have been watching discussion about the latest CBTp trial with interest and some weariness.



And here are some interesting links that I found in his feed:

Find The Gap: Or, why researchers squabble so much.

mind the gap


The post and the comments section is interesting to a confused layperson like me, and somewhere in there Sarah Knowles writes what I have been thinking:
For me, one of the core values of the scientific method is the fact that you’re expected to change your mind based on the evidence, in which case the idea that scientists are just sticking to their guns regardless is very worrying. 


2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?

Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine
Neuroscientist; Canada Research Chair in Philosophy & Psychiatry, McGill University


The Americanization of Mental Illness


Alex Trochut

Published: January 8, 2010


AMERICANS, particularly if they are of a certain leftward-leaning, college-educated type, worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures.



Research Article

Cognitive MechanismsUnderlying Recovered-MemoryExperiences of Childhood SexualAbuse

Elke Geraerts,1,2 D. Stephen Lindsay,3 Harald Merckelbach,2 Marko Jelicic,2 Linsey Raymaekers,2
Michelle M. Arnold,1 and Jonathan W. Schooler4
1
University of St. Andrews, 2
Maastricht University, 3
University of Victoria, and 4
University of California, Santa Barbara





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