Book Review: All Therapy Books
Hmmm... I&#x27;m pretty skeptical of the premise that &quot;All therapy books start with a claim that their form of therapy will change everything.&quot;<p>My wife practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and the foundation of her approach and all CBT books on her bookshelf is that CBT in fact doesn&#x27;t change anything at all.  You will still have symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) after CBT, but the goal of CBT is to help you manage those symptoms and live a meaningful life despite those symptoms.  It&#x27;s reasonable to doubt that such an approach can work, but Scott&#x27;s article entirely misses that this approach can even exist.  I suspect that this is a latent bias due to his psychiatrist training.  (Psychiatrists are trained to use medicine to reduce&#x2F;eliminate symptoms, and that is their primary measure of success; psychologists use therapy, and the reduction&#x2F;elimination of symptoms is not necessarily their primary measure of success.)<p>I just did a quick search on amazon for CBT books, however, and found that most results are things like &quot;CBT for Dummies&quot; and &quot;Teach yourself CBT in 7 weeks&quot;.  These are not books for doctors, but books for laymen that are merely self-help books with a veneer of science&#x2F;therapy to help the book sell.  Who knows what sort of crap is in these books.