Zu den Geisseln der Menschheit gehören die durchgeknallten Chargen der "Psychotherapie".
Besonders übel: wenn ausgerechnet Kranke ihnen zum Fraß vorgeworfen werden.
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Consumer Health Digest #07-21
May 22, 2007
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No evidence that psychotherapy increases cancer survival.A systematic review of published reports has concluded that existing
data do not support the claim that psychotherapy prolongs cancer
survival and that a large-scale trial would be a poor investment of
research funds because the hypothesis is improbable. [Coyne JC and
others. Psychotherapy and survival in cancer: The conflict between
hope and evidence. Psychological Bulletin 133:367-394, 2007]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17469983&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsumThe authors noted:
"Two studies in particular - Spiegel et al., 1989 and Fawzy et al.,
1993 - have been widely interpreted as providing early support for
the idea that psychotherapy promotes survival among cancer patients.
However,
the authors report that the studies had numerous
methodological and analytical flaws, including the fact that they
were not designed to test the hypothesis that psychotherapy extends
the lives of cancer patients. The study investigators had redefined
the purpose of their studies after looking at their data - a practice
that is generally not acceptable in biomedicine and that often leads
to claims that will not be validated in subsequent studies."[New research disproves widespread belief that group psychotherapy
extends the lives of cancer patients.
Penn Medicine news release, May 1, 2007]
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