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== Notable studies == * 2015, Statistical Spin, Linguistic Obfuscation: The Art of Overselling the CBT Evidence Base<ref name=":1">{{Cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281294896_Statistical_Spin_Linguistic_Obfuscation_The_Art_of_Overselling_the_CBT_Evidence_Base | title = (PDF) Statistical Spin, Linguistic Obfuscation: The Art of Overselling the CBT Evidence Base|website=ResearchGate|language=en|access-date=2019-02-20 | date = Jun 2015 | last = | first = | authorlink = Farhad Dalal|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=}}</ref> [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281294896_Statistical_Spin_Linguistic_Obfuscation_The_Art_of_Overselling_the_CBT_Evidence_Base (Full Text)] PDF <blockquote>This paper takes a close look at two interlinked studies on mindful- ness based cognitive therapy (MBCT), Teasdale and colleagues, 2000 and Ma and Teasdale, 2004. The second study corroborates the find- ings of the first study to claim that MBCT is a cost-effective treatment that prevents the recurrence of depression in 50% of the population. A close reading of the statistical and linguistic manipulations reveals that the outcomes are closer to 25%, and then too for a very limited population. In sum, the paper argues that the evidence for MBCT is being vastly oversold, as is the evidence for the effectiveness for cogni- tive behavioural therapy (CBT) more generally.<ref name=":1" /></blockquote> * 2018, CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science<ref name=":2">{{Cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328100169_CBT_The_Cognitive_Behavioural_Tsunami_Managerialism_Politics_and_the_Corruptions_of_Science | title = CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science {{!}} Request PDF | last = | first = | authorlink = Farhad Dalal | date = Sep 2018 | website = ResearchGate|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-02-20}}</ref> [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328100169_CBT_The_Cognitive_Behavioural_Tsunami_Managerialism_Politics_and_the_Corruptions_of_Science (Abstract)] <blockquote>Is CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of CBT’s understanding of human suffering, as well as the apparent scientific basis underlying it. The book argues that CBT psychology has fetishized measurement to such a degree that it has come to believe that only the countable counts. It suggests that the so-called science of CBT is not just “bad science” but “corrupt science”. The rise of CBT has been fostered by neoliberalism and the phenomenon of New Public Management. The book not only critiques the science, psychology and philosophy of CBT, but also challenges the managerialist mentality and its hyper-rational understanding of “efficiency”, both of which are commonplace in organizational life today. The book suggests that these are perverse forms of thought, which have been institutionalised by NICE and IAPT and used by them to generate narratives of CBT’s prowess. It claims that CBT is an exercise in symptom reduction which vastly exaggerates the degree to which symptoms are reduced, the durability of the improvement, as well as the numbers of people it helps. Arguing that CBT is neither the cure nor the scientific treatment it claims to be, the book also serves as a broader cultural critique of the times we live in; a critique which draws on philosophy and politics, on economics and psychology, on sociology and history, and ultimately, on the idea of science itself. It will be of immense interest to psychotherapists, policymakers and those concerned about the excesses of managerialism.<ref name=":2" /></blockquote>
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