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Nick Kemp <nickkempinfo@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> I don't know about pricing, but I always advise people to talk to any
> practitioner in advance and satisfy their own questions before
> proceeding. I'm not a great fan of academia and "scientific" study as
> I have seen scores of clients who were treated by highly qualified
> therapists all with excellent paper qualifications, but who frequently
> were not able to affect useful change for te client. The record to
> date is an individual who had 1500 psychotherapy sessions from a
> number of "highly qualified professionals" but (from his perspective)
> without any useful change. There are of course excellent CBTers and
> other therapists out there, but making genera LIE sations on block
> about any approach is a tad simplistic and convenient
>
> (:
>
> Nick Kemp
> www.nickkemp.com
Agreed.
For those interested in actual change, you might want to hunt up a copy
of "Encounter Groups--First Facts". One fascinating result of this
research was that positive results depended on the therapist and their
relationship with the client, and was not related to the theory or
theories they espoused.
Greg