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Psychotherapy was a good article, but it was removed from the list as it no longer met the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.
Review: August 26, 2006. (Reviewed version).

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How the group psychotherapies can contain the family psychotherapies?

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Any psychotherapies (except the family psychotherapies) contain only partially the same which contain the group psychotherapies (for example, that members are not acquaintances). The family psychotherapies would have to contain fully the same which contain the group psychotherapies. This they can't satisfy. They can't be the representatives of the group psychotherapies, belong to them. Do you agree? Chomsky (talk) 15:16, 8 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Chomsky: I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. Families are a proper subset of groups. Group therapy might involve friends, families, or strangers. -- Beland (talk) 16:46, 30 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sentence on pseudoscience

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

In this edit, the following sentence was removed from the lead section without a rationale or edit summary (by an editor who has an unhelpful habit of making major changes without writing edit summaries):

Certain types of psychotherapy are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders, and other types have been criticized as pseudoscience.^[1]

The pseudoscience part was added by Beland in this edit. I am not going to restore the sentence myself, but I am noting it here in case anyone else considers it important. Biogeographist (talk) 12:41, 30 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the note, I've re-added the sentence. -- Beland (talk) 16:46, 30 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

References

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For example:
- Lilienfeld, Scott O. (December 2015). "Introduction to special section on pseudoscience in psychiatry". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 531–533. doi:10.1177/070674371506001202. PMC 4679160. PMID 26720820. Although the boundaries separating pseudoscience from science are fuzzy, pseudosciences are characterized by several warning signs—fallible but useful indicators that distinguish them from most scientific disciplines. ... In contrast to most accepted medical interventions, which are prescribed for a circumscribed number of conditions, many pseudoscientific techniques lack boundary conditions of application. For example, some proponents of Thought Field Therapy, an intervention that purports to correct imbalances in unobservable energy fields, using specified bodily tapping algorithms, maintain that it can be used to treat virtually any psychological condition, and that it is helpful not only for adults but also for children, dogs, and horses.
- Lee, Catherine M.; Hunsley, John (December 2015). "Evidence-based practice: separating science from pseudoscience". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 534–540. doi:10.1177/070674371506001203. PMC 4679161. PMID 26720821. TFT, a treatment applied to mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders, is a prime example of practice founded on pseudoscience. TFT is based on the premise that bodily energy imbalances cause negative emotions. Treatment is purported to rectify imbalances by tapping on acupuncture meridians. Virtually no peer-reviewed research supports this treatment rationale. With only methodologically weak reports available in the literature, the so-called science cited to support TFT is primarily anecdotal and does not rule out placebo effects. Despite these criticisms, the TFT website continues to advance unsupported claims about TFT's ability to cure almost any emotional problem.

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology Capstone

Latest comment: 9 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 9 January 2024 and 26 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Peytonmk (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Peytonmk (talk) 22:32, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Regarding adding parentheses to the name Reuterskiöld

Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

@Biogeographist I noticed you reverted my edit saying it wasn't needed. I think there may be some confusion here. Adding double parentheses to a name in a citation doesn't change the way it looks it just bypasses the cs1 error "cite uses generic name" [[1]]. Because the name Reuterskiöld has the word Reuters in it it gets tagged for this error despite it being his actual name. CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath (talk) 18:18, 28 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

@CursedWithTheAbilityToDoTheMath: OK, I didn't know that. Please use edit summaries to explain your edits: WP:ES. Biogeographist (talk)

Feels like heavy burden to family, friends , the whole world......

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Want to tell a bye from the universe 2409:4073:2E93:1D11:0:0:C44A:EC00 (talk) 13:15, 1 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

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[1] For example:
Lilienfeld, Scott O. (December 2015). "Introduction to special section on pseudoscience in psychiatry". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 531–533. doi:10.1177/070674371506001202. PMC 4679160. PMID 26720820. Although the boundaries separating pseudoscience from science are fuzzy, pseudosciences are characterized by several warning signs—fallible but useful indicators that distinguish them from most scientific disciplines. ... In contrast to most accepted medical interventions, which are prescribed for a circumscribed number of conditions, many pseudoscientific techniques lack boundary conditions of application. For example, some proponents of Thought Field Therapy, an intervention that purports to correct imbalances in unobservable energy fields, using specified bodily tapping algorithms, maintain that it can be used to treat virtually any psychological condition, and that it is helpful not only for adults but also for children, dogs, and horses.

Lee, Catherine M.; Hunsley, John (December 2015). "Evidence-based practice: separating science from pseudoscience". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 534–540. doi:10.1177/070674371506001203. PMC 4679161. PMID 26720821. TFT, a treatment applied to mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders, is a prime example of practice founded on pseudoscience. TFT is based on the premise that bodily energy imbalances cause negative emotions. Treatment is purported to rectify imbalances by tapping on acupuncture meridians. Virtually no peer-reviewed research supports this treatment rationale. With only methodologically weak reports available in the literature, the so-called science cited to support TFT is primarily anecdotal and does not rule out placebo effects. Despite these criticisms, the TFT website continues to advance unsupported claims about TFT's ability to cure almost any emotional problem.

[2] Lilienfeld, Scott O. (December 2015). "Introduction to special section on pseudoscience in psychiatry". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 531–533. doi:10.1177/070674371506001202. PMC 4679160. PMID 26720820. Although the boundaries separating pseudoscience from science are fuzzy, pseudosciences are characterized by several warning signs—fallible but useful indicators that distinguish them from most scientific disciplines. ... In contrast to most accepted medical interventions, which are prescribed for a circumscribed number of conditions, many pseudoscientific techniques lack boundary conditions of application. For example, some proponents of Thought Field Therapy, an intervention that purports to correct imbalances in unobservable energy fields, using specified bodily tapping algorithms, maintain that it can be used to treat virtually any psychological condition, and that it is helpful not only for adults but also for children, dogs, and horses.

[3] Lee, Catherine M.; Hunsley, John (December 2015). "Evidence-based practice: separating science from pseudoscience". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 534–540. doi:10.1177/070674371506001203. PMC 4679161. PMID 26720821. TFT, a treatment applied to mood, anxiety, and trauma-related disorders, is a prime example of practice founded on pseudoscience. TFT is based on the premise that bodily energy imbalances cause negative emotions. Treatment is purported to rectify imbalances by tapping on acupuncture meridians. Virtually no peer-reviewed research supports this treatment rationale. With only methodologically weak reports available in the literature, the so-called science cited to support TFT is primarily anecdotal and does not rule out placebo effects. Despite these criticisms, the TFT website continues to advance unsupported claims about TFT's ability to cure almost any emotional problem.

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