A breakdown of CBT

 A breakdown of CBT

 

Advice,Business,Consumer The drug companies are at it again, they and the medication enthusiasts. As far as they're concerned, all therapy is no more helpful than having a chat to an old friend. Doesn't benefit you one bit, except for the old saw; 'a problem shared is a problem halved.' It can't be denied that there's been a

 great increase in psychopharmacology over the past ten years and of course the marketing efforts have more than kept pace accordingly. So it's now becoming 'de rigeur' to look upon any form of therapy as costly, ineffective and a waste of time. The result of all this is that patients who formally would have tried

 therapy enthusiastically, are now turning away from it in preference to medications. But the leading therapists haven't been idle, either, especially those specializing in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT. Growing evidence from brain imaging research suggests strongly that C.B.T. shows changes in the brain which are very similar to