The evaluation of psychotherapy: A reply to Greenwood

Philosophy of Science 63 (4):642-651 (1996)
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John Greenwood (this issue) claims that neglect of an important methodological distinction has contributed directly to the "epistemic impoverishment" of empirical studies of all forms of professional psychotherapy. I challenge this claim, as well as other important claims he makes about the efficacy of psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy

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Edward Erwin
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The effectiveness of psychotherapy: The specter at the feast.H. J. Eysenck - 1983 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (2):290-290.

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