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06 Jan 10

Placebo as Good as Paxil, Tofranil for Most Depression | World of Psychology

  • They found that for mild, moderate and even severe depression, both the sugar pill and the antidepressant were about equally effective.
  • That is, they both helped relieve a person’s depression (suggesting that it’s the act of treating someone — not the drug itself — that is actually helping the person feel better). Only for very severe depression was there a clinically significant difference in rating scale scores for antidepressants.
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02 Oct 09

Why Psychologists Reject Science: Begley | Newsweek Voices - Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com

  • "use the interventions for which there is the strongest evidence of efficacy"
  • The disconnect between what clinicians do and what science has discovered is an unconscionable embarrassment," he told me, and there is a "widening gulf between clinical practice and science."
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13 Jul 09

Carol Smaldino: In the Shadows of "Our" Torture

  • why psychologists could have been willing to participate in interrogations that led to the sadistic breaking down of human body and spirit, because we can't stand to see the potential for cruelty in our own mirror?
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