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>Indeed, cognitive behaviour therapy is already close to being a term of abuse, which doesn't stop it being increasingly employed, particularly upon the poor, as a *means* of abuse. Again, as Chris says, there is a distinct problem with current research which is presumably allied to how it is funded, and not just the ambitions of proponents.< The main problem with the science of psychology is that it is too near-excusively based on clinical empiricism and (generally flawed use of) statistics instead of a lot of theoretical thinking based on a little neurophysiological empiricism, and a good deal of introspection and simple experience of people in ordinary life. It's funded the same way poetry is: one's pay depends on one's credentials, not one's abilities. Excuse the interruption. Just pushing my own uncertified way of trying to figure out the workings of the mind. --Bob