Paul Okami wrote:
While the ideas behind such as "healing touch" may be less sophisticated, may appear to make less logical sense, and be less aesthetically pleasing from a scientific perspective than those of the "empirically-supported treatments," I don't see very powerful evidence demonstrating that such as Interpersonal Therapy, Rational Emotive Behavior al Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and (good lord) psychoanalysis are reliably superior in effectiveness in a general sense to "healing touch" and others.
Who said that any of us complaining about "healing touch" strongly support RET or psychoanalysis? Although I don't think it is the equivalent of, say, medical intervention, my underatnding is that there actually is pretty good empirical evidence for the effectiveness of cognitive therapy for depression, especially in combination with anti-depressants (certainly WAY better than there is for, say, "healing touch").
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