Miguel Roig wrote:
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> From yesterday's New York Times:
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> "Intensive psychoanalytic therapy, the "talking cure" rooted in the 
> ideas of Freud 
> <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/sigmund_freud/index.html?inline=nyt-per>,
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> has all but disappeared in the age of drug treatments and managed 
> care. But now researchers are reporting that the therapy can be 
> effective against some chronic mental problems, including anxiety 
> <http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/stress-and-anxiety/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>
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> and borderline personality disorder 
> <http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/borderline-personality-disorder/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>".
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/health/01psych.html
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Yes but...
"Experts cautioned that the evidence cited in the new research was still 
too meager to claim clear superiority for psychoanalytic therapy over 
different treatments, like cognitive behavior therapy, a shorter-term 
approach. The studies that the authors reviewed are simply not strong 
enough, these experts said."

Chris
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