Does Psychotherapy Work?

You might’ve heard people talking about how awesome psychotherapy can be, but is it actually effective? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطا الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychotherapy http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/types-mental-health-professionals https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28240781 https://www.talkspace.com/blog/2016/10/why-you-might-feel-bad-or-worse-after-therapy/ https://welldoing.org/article/in-therapy-why-you-might-feel-worse-before-you-feel-better https://contextualscience.org/system/files/Chawla(2007).pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232572077_Experiential_avoidance_and_behavioral_disorders_A_functional_dimensional_approach_to_diagnosis_and_treatment https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dsm5-in-distress/201502/psychotherapy-works-not-everyone http://www.compassionfatigue.org/pages/compassionfatigue.html https://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/02/27/what-do-clients-think-of-psychotherapy-that-doesnt-work/ https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/were-only-human/why-psychotherapy-appears-to-work-even-when-it-doesnt.html http://www.statisticshowto.com/what-is-bias/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4118818/ https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/matter-personality/201212/why-psychotherapy-efficacy-studies-are-nearly-impossible https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/dropping-out-of-psychotherapy https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-role-of-anecdotes-in-science-based-medicine/ https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/spontaneous-remission-occurs-in-majority-of-depression-cases-0913131 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x/asset/j.1471-1842.2009.00848.x.pdf?v=1&t=jc8qix1h&s=9ab9be0157574cf74dcc416dbacbb8c51ceb8cb0 https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1980/8020/802005.PDF https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a7b7/3212b3edcfc4ba62ebc03920e92ad5c6f7e3.pdf https://psychcentral.com/lib/in-depth-cognitive-behavioral-therapy/ http://psychology.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.001.0001/acrefore-9780190236557-e-68?print=pdf