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PSYCH: The Story of the Human Mind

The Next Big Idea

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The Problems of Psychotherapy

I don't think we've made a huge amount of progress in the last few decades. Our drugs are not demonstratively better than they were a while ago. And I kind of know why it's so for the drugs, which has to do with financial incentives. It's just very expensive to develop a new drug. But our best evidence suggests therapy and drugs do work. They're better than not doing them.

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