Stephen wrote "......the 17 studies included in the meta-analysis were "randomized controlled trials", not "randomized, placebo-controlled trials", a significant difference. In fact, their large effect size for target problems (1.39) was based on before-after comparisons, not comparison with an equally-credible placebo treatment. So while their meta-analysis may have shown that STPP works, it provides no evidence that it works better than a placebo." Wasn't it Martin Gross in "The Psychological Society" who suggested that psychotherapists are the "institutionalized dispensers of placebos?" Ed
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