Psychotherapy Over The Last Four Decades

Psychological treatments are the other arm of therapy for depression and many psychiatric disorders. The literature is full of trials indicating that they are in some contexts more effective and better at preventing relapse than pharmaceutical interventions. There are no physical side effects, but some of the best-validated treatments depend on therapists with training. Unlike drug therapies, there are no multibillion-dollar suppliers of these treatments with the motivation to market them and make them easily obtainable . . . And yet such therapies have the potential to make a substantive difference to new categories of patients