Re: thoughts on psychotherapy

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 00:37:29 MDT

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Psychotherapy is bunk.

Experiment demonstrates that psychotherapy produces results slightly
worse than a control group in which patients just talk to a random
person for an hour.

Recommended: "House of Cards" by Robyn Dawes and Peter David.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684830914/extropyinstitute

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