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Day: August 1, 2019

David Smail: Therapy doesn’t work (caveats apply)

Posted on 1 August, 20191 August, 2019 by preorg

David Smail, a dissenting psychologist writing in the 90s, was prone to making sweeping statements about the uselessness of therapy. This feels, I suspect, a little odd to most people who have had therapy and felt that it benefited them. However when you scratch beneath the surface of his contrarian statements some genuinely interesting points…

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