{"id":20,"date":"2007-08-26T11:47:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T18:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:44:37","slug":"is-psychotherapy-as-dangerous-as-psychiatric-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/26\/is-psychotherapy-as-dangerous-as-psychiatric-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Psychotherapy as Dangerous as Psychiatric Drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Lack of science plagues both therapies<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On June 18, 2007, Newsweek exposed the oft-overlooked dangers of psychological therapy, including bizarre techniques such as &#8220;recovered memory&#8221; therapy and &#8220;stress debriefing&#8221; for disorders that cannot be scientifically substantiated.<\/p>\n<p>The article reveals &#8220;&#8230;the number of people undergoing potentially risky therapies reaches into the tens of thousands. [The painkiller] Vioxx was yanked from the market for less.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a psychiatric watchdog group, says that while psychotropic drugs and electroshock commonly used in mental health &#8220;treatment&#8221; have documented physical adverse effects\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dsometimes deadly\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dthe harmful effects of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy often are as visible.<\/p>\n<p>The Newsweek article addresses the lack of efficacy of these methods, which psychologist John Norcross of Scranton University refers to as &#8220;psychoquackery.&#8221; In his book, Psychology: A Study of a Science, Dr. Sigmund Koch from the American Psychological Association concluded, &#8220;I think it by this time utterly and finally clear that psychology cannot be a coherent science&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a common denominator between psychiatry and psychology: both lack a scientific foundation and the &#8220;therapies&#8221; that are developed from this faulty premise are potentially dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of science plagues both therapies On June 18, 2007, Newsweek exposed the oft-overlooked dangers of psychological therapy, including bizarre techniques such as &#8220;recovered memory&#8221; therapy and &#8220;stress debriefing&#8221; for disorders that cannot be scientifically substantiated. The article reveals &#8220;&#8230;the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2007\/08\/26\/is-psychotherapy-as-dangerous-as-psychiatric-drugs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}