Miguel Roig wrote: > > > From yesterday's New York Times: > > > > "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>, > > 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> > > and borderline personality disorder > <http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/borderline-personality-disorder/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>". > > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/health/01psych.html > > 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."
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