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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Contempt prior to Investigation
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Date: Sun, 16-Mar-86 17:44:00 EST
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>>> Clinical and Applied Psychology.
>> 
>> I wish this were more of a "taboo" than it is.  Studies show that as many
>> people are hurt as are helped by therapy.
> 
> I don't what study you're talking about, but I have heard that most (70% or
> more) of people who have attended therapy/councilling found it beneficial.
> Therapy is much maligned by people who have no personal experience with it
> -- in fact, by otherwise rational and intelligent people.
> 
> Perhaps you should keep an open mind about topics in which you are less
> qualified than others to pass judgment -- even personal judgment.  I've been
> involved in therapy and found it to be very helpful.

The adherents of every quack medical treatment I've ever heard of claim
(probably correctly) that a majority of people treated *thought* the
treatment was beneficial.

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

"I'm sorry, sir. According to your identification you're not even born
 yet. Come back in 500 years."