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Birmingham
An old journal article that surfaced again recently criticized the value of CBT in the NHS, apparently with particular reference to Birmingham. The article is Beck never lived in Birmingham, written by two NHS psychologists, Paul Moloney and Paul Ke...
Creed
Back in 2005 an article accurately critiqued the (still-current in 2009) fashion for evidence-based medicine. It sounds harmless, doesn’t it? How could medicine that is based on evidence possibly be a bad thing? Originally published in Perspec...
Smarties
What has these ingredients: hibiscus fruit, safflower, red cabbage, black carrot, radish, lemon and blue-green algae? “Only Smarties have the answer” is the answer. The ingredients are the natural colourings used to make NestlĂ© Smarties...
Beauty
Here are some links to other sites that illustrate the beauty of good science, and the ugly truth about bad science. Science is important for anyone having psychotherapy, because the basis for psychotherapy is scientific evidence. For example, the B...
Brink
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) shows sudden signs of pulling back from the brink it has been staggering towards for the last while. A final stagger might still result in catastrophe, but there has been a kind of positive mood swi...
Jack
There’s a way of doing psychotherapy that’s known as integrative, because it is supposed to integrate other ways of doing psychotherapy. You get the best of them all that way…or do you? The various different approaches to psychothe...

