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A hard-hitting critique of how managed care and attention and the selective use of knowledge to privilege quick-fix treatments have undermined in-depth psychotherapy - to the detriment of patients and practitioners In recent years there's been a decline in the quality and availability of psychotherapy in the us that has truly gone largely unnoticed - even though rates of anxiousness, despair, and suicide are on the rise. In Saving Talk Therapy, experienced psychologist Dr. Enrico Gnaulati reveals evocative case studies from his practice to remind patients and therapists alike how and just why traditional talk therapy works and, using cutting-edge research conclusions, unpacks the problematic incentives in our health-care system and in academic psychology that clarify its decline. You start with a conversation of the historical development of have a discussion therapy, Gnaulati continues on to dissect the factors which have eroded it. Psychotropic drugs, if no longer regarded as a magical treat, are still overprescribed and shunt health-care us dollars to medicine companies. Managed-care companies and mental health "carve outs" send these same us dollars to administrators and slash repayments to therapists, driving many talented ones away and overburdening those who remain in the system. Drawing back again the curtains on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) - a short-term, goal-oriented form of psychotherapy that is recommended in the managed-care world - Gnaulati implies that, while it might prove effective in the research lab, those conclusions don't readily apply to people's complex emotional problems. Gnaulati also casts a spotlight on how CBT's favored status in graduate programs stops trainee therapists from acquiring the relationship skills essential to caringly and carefully treat patients. Saving Talk Therapy is a passionate and deeply researched case for in-depth, individually transformative psychotherapy that features the benefits of evidence-based practice and psychotropic drugs without over-relying on them.