by Andrew Harlem, PhD

A PRESENTATION BY JONATHAN SHEDLER, PHD: Where Is the 'Evidence' in Evidence-Based Therapy? How Health Insurers and Academic Researchers Are Gaslighting America

We are bombarded with messages from policymakers, health insurers, and academic researchers that "evidence-based therapy" (a code phrase for brief CBT) is scientifically proven, superior to psychoanalytic therapy, and the gold standard of care. The evidence rests on a house of cards. Research actually shows that these treatments are ineffective. Benefits are trivial, patients do not get well, and even the trivial benefits do not last. Dr. Shedler will discuss the flawed evidence behind "evidence-based" therapy, and how research findings are routinely misrepresented to give the false impression that the treatments are effective. He will also discuss the biases built into research studies that render their findings clinically meaningless. Attendees will come away with the ammunition to respond to critics of relationship-based therapy.

Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
​Cost: Free