Have we overestimated the effectiveness of psychotherapy?
Problems with therapy:<p>A. No standards of treatment. It is therapists choice, and therapists are free to pick and choose whatever they want. Because results are so hard to measure, therapists who are really bad at their job can continue to operate, dragging overall results for the field down.<p>B. Licensing requirements are all over the place. From psychologists with PhDs from well established institutions, to people who got an online professional degree. The type of training someone receives heavily impacts their approach to therapy, and the quality of their education determines how high quality their treatment program can be.<p>For fun sometime, pay the arm and a leg it costs to get a full battery of psychology tests done from a psychologist.  You&#x27;ll get a personality test and an actual IQ score. It takes a long time (multiple sessions each lasting a couple hours), but you will get to see the real scientific part of psychology.<p>I actually got a practical result out of it. My doctor was able to tell me that the reason I kept dropping cups was due to a co-morbid congenital condition. Apparently a certain % of people who have an underdeveloped optic nerve also have weak grip strength.<p>The grip strength trainer I bought has more than paid for itself in saved cups and glasses.