Psychology · Clinical & Abnormal Psychology
A topic within Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
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Hans J. Eysenck
Compares recovery rates of treated and untreated neurotic patients and argues psychotherapy of the day produced no better outcome than spontaneous remission, a challenge that forced the entire field to start measuring its own outcomes.
Bruce E. Wampold et al.
When comparisons are restricted to legitimate, intended treatments, different schools of psychotherapy produce statistically indistinguishable outcomes, evidence for common factors across therapies over the specific techniques each one claims are doing the work.
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