If we’re talking therapists, call me cynical but curing people as opposed to just reducing/managing their problems is bad for business. (As Big Pharma has also noted.)
Which is not to say therapists don’t try to help, or wouldn’t be pleased to produce a breakthrough so major and permanent that the patient didn’t need them any more, but there’s not such a big incentive for them to do that, and I suspect most of the profession doesn’t particularly aim to achieve it.
Also compounded by the fact that no doubt it’s difficult to achieve, and would be somewhat hit or miss even if therapists had figured out what methods are actually effective.
But medicine attempts to do that, by tracking outcomes and crunching the numbers, so therapy should too (more than it already does anyway).
If we’re talking therapists, call me cynical but curing people as opposed to just reducing/managing their problems is bad for business. (As Big Pharma has also noted.)
Which is not to say therapists don’t try to help, or wouldn’t be pleased to produce a breakthrough so major and permanent that the patient didn’t need them any more, but there’s not such a big incentive for them to do that, and I suspect most of the profession doesn’t particularly aim to achieve it.
Also compounded by the fact that no doubt it’s difficult to achieve, and would be somewhat hit or miss even if therapists had figured out what methods are actually effective.
But medicine attempts to do that, by tracking outcomes and crunching the numbers, so therapy should too (more than it already does anyway).