Unbalanced critique The psychotherapy article needs a balanced critique section The current article contains a section called criticisms and questions regarding effectiveness in which a few random studies have been cited and a laundry list of random arguments are put forward It is not a comprehensive precis of the effectiveness literature The article neglects a wide body of work that points to a the success of some types of therapy with specific types of disorders b discipline agnostic characteristics of therapist behaviour that contribute to success c superiority of psychopharmacology psychotherapy combined vs either intervention on it s own d characteristics of clients patients that seem to benefit most from psychotherapy and e vested interests of stakeholders in swinging research to one side of the debate or the other and other inhibiting factors consider the two APA s the various laws and licensing authorities the separate academic communities in psychiatry philosophy social work occupational therapy the professional jealousies the profound neglect of mental illness and psychological wellbeing in public health and health insurance and the impact of the pharmaceutical industry s deep pockets on the dominant discourse Please note that I am editing anonymously in protest against the tyrrany of the editing majority Wikipedia s non negotiable amateur editor norm might be appropriate for certain article categories but in more nuanced technical spaces there is invariably a segment that make nuisances of themselves by wanting to debate every word and angle I have watched the development of articles on schools of psychotherapy since the early 2000s and I m afraid time and multiple amateur edits have not improved them much In the specific case of psychology their mistakes add to the perception that this is a wishy washy discipline void of a body of knowledge and ANY facts I suspect that this is partly why self respecting people who are knowledgeable don t want to be involved in what is otherwise a very worthy undertaking Preceding unsigned comment added by 41 242 118 144