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Friendly-HI comments on Breaking the vicious cycle - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: XiXiDu 23 November 2014 06:25PM

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Comment author: Friendly-HI 25 November 2014 09:59:30PM 2 points [-]

I don't believe that competent mental health professionals actually exist

Ouch shots fired. How the success rate of CBT looks like depends heavily what exactly the mental health problem is. "Curing" or rather alleviating many kinds of phobias via cognitive behavior therapy has a really excellent success rate for example.