PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Pragmatics, Electronic Body Music, Psychoanalysis
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You have a problem, doctor refers you to specialist ie respirologist who puts u on treatment. Big movement in medicine now is ebm (evidence based medicine) where scientific literature looks at whether certain medicines are best for specific diseases. So need to look at latest empirically based articles and be up to date w/ current medicine. Basically you want treatment to be based in science. Westen paper is about empirically supported evidence for psychotherapy. Westin is a psychoanalyst and psychoanalysts don"t subject themselves to ebm. You want a balance but also has stayed up on literature. You want medical practitioners to look at peer reviewed articles and practice to be informed. Evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions (ie. cbt, ipt) are diff from medically-based interventions b/c they validate treatment for psychotherapy. Cbt trials for depression and anxiety disorders (ie. panic disorders, gad) lasts.
