Light Up The Couch

Psychotherapy’s Fatal Flaw and How to Fix It, Ep. 80

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Feb 20, 2020
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INSIGHT

Outcomes Have Not Improved

  • Psychotherapy outcomes have stagnated despite new models and trainings.
  • Scott Miller argues improving basics, not chasing new techniques, yields better results.
ANECDOTE

Training Didn’t Change Outcomes

  • Scott Miller described training with well-known clinicians yet finding his overall effectiveness unchanged.
  • He realized confidence increased but client outcomes did not improve, prompting deeper investigation.
INSIGHT

Therapy Is A 50-50 Proposition

  • Randomized trials of CBT show about a 50% recovery rate within typical study durations.
  • Miller highlights the problem that clinicians often cannot detect when their cases are failing.
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