Salvaging psychotherapy research: a manifesto
NOTE: Additional documentation and supplementary links and commentary are available at What We Need to Do to Redeem Psychotherapy Research. Fueling Change in Psychotherapy Research with Greater...
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I recently talked with a junior psychiatrist about whether she should undertake a randomized trial of positive psychology interventions with depressed primary care patients. I had concerns about...
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John Ioannidis, the “scourge of sloppy science” has documented again and again that the safeguards being introduced into the biomedical literature against untrustworthy findings are usually...
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