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From: Brittany on 6 Aug 2008 23:05 It seems that the shrinks are no longer wanting to hear about your problems... just shut up and take this dangerous prescription! Don't forget to make another appointment so you can help pay for the shrinks new car and new improved house while you're struggling to keep up with your own bills. Cartoons about the psychiatrists couch were recently the subject of a museum exhibition. Now, the couch itself may be headed for a museum. A new study finds a significant decline in psychotherapy practiced by U.S. psychiatrists. The expanded use of pills and insurance policies that favor short office visits are among the reasons, said lead author Dr. Ramin Mojtabai of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The couch, or, more generally, long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy, was for so long a hallmark of the practice of psychiatry. It no longer is, he said. For more go to http://badpsych.com/2008/08/06/no-time-to-talk-heres-a-prescription/ |