| > IRRC both of them cannot compare to psychotherapy, The whole point of this, and numerous other articles is that this statement is objectively false. If you have treatment resistant depression, PTSD, etc that treatment includes therapy. Which is why ketamine and ECT are being investigated - for plenty of people these treatments have resolved things such that they do not need medical or therapy based treatment. > which has far higher effectiveness at the cost of far more resources. I'm guessing this is a typo, but given the cost of 1+ hours a week at easily $100-200/hr, for years - often without any limit at all - I'd be curious what the total cost is. This is especially important in this case as ECT, ketamine, etc treatments are _required_ to demonstrate efficacy, whereas psychotherapy has no such requirements. There's been plenty of research over the years that has found pretty underwhelming outcomes from therapy based treatment outside of specific areas - more extreme are the therapy group/out-patient scams which have been shown very clearly to only work for groups of people with exactly the same trauma, and even then, only specific types of trauma. It's a real problem in mental health treatment that only treatments that require the use of drugs and/or "surgical" procedure are required to provide evidence that they actually work. |