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Like antidepressants, a substantial part of the benefit of psychotherapy depends on a placebo effect, or as Moerman calls it, the meaning response. At least part of the improvement that is produced by these treatments is due to the relationship between the therapist and the client and to the client's expectancy of getting better. That is a problem for antidepressant treatment. It is a problem because drugs are supposed to work because of their chemistry, not because of the psychological factors. But it is not a problem for psychotherapy. Psychotherapists are trained to provide a warm and caring environment in which therapeutic change can take place. Their intention is to replace the hopelessness of depression with a sense of hope and faith in the future. These tasks are part of the essence of psychotherapy. The fact that psychotherapy can mobilize the meaning response - and that it can do so without deception - is one of its strengths, no one of its weaknesses. Because hopelessness is a fundamental characteristic of depression, instilling hope is a specific treatment for it it. Invoking the meaning response is essential for the effective treatment of depression, and the best treatments are those that can do this most effectively and that can do without deception.


Irving Kirsch


#depression #effective-treatment #meaning-response #change

I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.


Gerald Durrell


#eucalyptus #gloom #prose #family

Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon." Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels.


Kevin Hearne


#batman-inuendos #great-swearing #family

So I enrolled at the University of North Florida, which, as you can imagine, is in north Florida. That’s about all I have to say about the school itself, as it’s so bland that if it were a food it would be oatmeal. Cold oatmeal.


Jarod Kintz


#enroll #oatmeal #school #university #university-of-north-florida

See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moon light... stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend didn't dare make the leap. Y'see... Y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea... He says 'Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!' B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says... He says 'Wh-what do you think I am? Crazy? You'd turn it off when I was half way across!


Alan Moore


#freedom

Green Lantern: "What are your powers anyway? You can't fly." Batman: "No." Green Lantern: "Super-strength?" Batman: "No." Green Lantern: "Hold on a second... You're not just some guy in a bat costume, are you? Are you freaking kidding me?!


Geoff Johns


#funny #green-lantern #justice-league #superheroes #funny

I'm the goddamn Batman.


Frank Miller


#humor #humor

It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!


Karen Marie Moning


#dani-o-malley #humor #humor

...now and then a giggling trail of mermaids appeared in our wake. We fed them oatmeal.


Tove Jansson


#mermaids #oatmeal #sailing #humor

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.


Arvid Carlsson


#any #awkward #course #effect #local






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