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Pseudoscientific Practices - Astrology & Tarot Cards : Why and Who Seek Them

Pseudoscientific Practices - Astrology & Tarot Cards : Why and Who Seek Them

  1. With psychotherapists’ encouragement, troubled people are seeking solace in pseudoscientific practices such as astrology and tarot cards
  2. “People are putting their trust — and their money — into these practices, which they view as pathways to enlightenment,” Sanam Yar reports in The New York Times.
  3. Those who favor these alternatives tend to be young, female and affluent, Yar notes.

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Psychotherapists Incorporation of these Practices

Psychotherapists Incorporation of these Practices

  1. Some psychotherapists incorporate these unconventional practices into their therapy, or at any rate do not discourage patients from pursuing them.
  2. “I’m not teaching it, but I’m not saying you can’t bring this into the room,” California psychologist Charlynn Ruan told Yar.
  3. Nicolle Osequeda, a Chicago-based therapist, said she “supports the use of any safe methods that her patients find helpful.”
  4. New York psychologist Jonathan Kaplan said that if “someone is pursuing psychological evidence-based therapy while meditating with crystals while Mercury is in retrograde, I’m fine with that.”

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Surging Interest in Astrology

Surging Interest in Astrology

  1. Interest in astrology is surging, especially among millennials.
  2. The shift began with the advent of the personal computer, accelerated with the Internet, and has reached new speeds through social media.
  3. In times of crisis, it is often said, people search for something to believe in.
  4. Unlike therapy, where a client might spend months or even years uncovering the roots of a symptom, astrology promises to get to answers more quickly.

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Some Statistics

Some Statistics

  1. A 2017 poll found that 30 percent of Americans believe in astrology, but the number of people with at least a casual interest might be much higher.
  2. In its penetration into our shared lexicon, astrology is a little like psychoanalysis once was.
  3. At mid-century, you might have heard talk of id, ego, or superego at a party; now it’s common to hear someone explain herself by way of sun, moon, and rising signs.

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Tarot Reading Helps to Achieve Better Feeling

Tarot Reading Helps to Achieve Better Feeling

  1. In Cosmopolitan , writer Gina Tomaine explains why, when she was feeling “out of sorts,” she consulted a social worker who did tarot readings.
  2. Tarot cards “have always had deep roots in psychological applications,” Tomaine says.
  3. “Psychoanalyst Carl Jung explained that the cards were an easy way to represent the ‘archetypes of mankind’—or universal traits like strength, ambition, and passion—in psychology, making them ideal tools for therapy and mental health.

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Acceptance of Pseudoscience Practices by Prominent Mind Scientists

Acceptance of Pseudoscience Practices by Prominent Mind Scientists

  1. Skeptics are surely appalled by the accepting attitude of patients and psychotherapists toward pseudoscience.
  2. But they should remember that many prominent mind-scientists have been quite tolerant of occult practices.
  3. One is the aforementioned Carl Jung . Another is Jerome Frank, a professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and pioneer in research on the effects of psychotherapy.

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Findings by Jerome Frank, a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and Pioneer in Research on the Effects of Psychotherapy

Findings by Jerome Frank, a Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and Pioneer in Research on the Effects of Psychotherapy

  1. Frank’s research convinced him that the specific theoretical framework of a given therapy has little to do with its effectiveness.
  2. The most important factor is the therapist’s ability to induce the placebo effect, by convincing patients that they will improve.
  3. Many patients respond to therapists and therapies with scientific status, Frank noted, but others might prefer a faith healer, witchdoctor or shaman to a Harvard-trained psychiatrist.
  4. Frank spelled out this perspective in his influential 1961 book Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy.

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Science or Placebo Effect?

Science or Placebo Effect?

  1. Over the past half century, researchers have churned out countless findings about the brain, mind and mental illness.
  2. And psychologists and psychiatrists have introduced many supposedly new and improved treatments for mental distress, notably cognitive-behavioral therapy and antidepressants such as SSRIs.
  3. But research suggests that these ostensibly scientific treatments still gain most of their effectiveness from the placebo effect.

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Effectiveness of Psychotherapies

Effectiveness of Psychotherapies

  1. In a massive 2002 study of psychotherapies, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, a team led by psychologist Lester Luborsky found that all are roughly as effective as each other.
  2. Studies favoring one particular therapy, Luborsky asserted, tend to show an “allegiance effect,” a prior bias of researchers toward that therapy.

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Are Medications for Mental Illness Effective?

Are Medications for Mental Illness Effective?

  1. Other analyses suggest that medications for mental illness, although they benefit some people in the short term, might end up hurting more people than they help.
  2. Thomas Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said recently, “I don’t think we moved the needle in reducing suicide, reducing hospitalizations, improving recovery for the tens of millions of people who have mental illness.”

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Any Persuasive Theories or Treatments for Mental Illness?

Any Persuasive Theories or Treatments for Mental Illness?

  1. Research into the brain and mind has yet to produce truly persuasive theories of and treatments for mental illness.
  2. As a recent essay in a British psychiatric journal argues, “it is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist in managing [mental] illnesses despite attempts to suggest the contrary.”

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Failure of any Scientific Evidence to Cure Mental Illness

Failure of any Scientific Evidence to Cure Mental Illness

  1. This failure helps explains why people still turn to Freudian psychoanalysis , although it does not stand up to scientific scrutiny, and to an even older mind-therapy, Buddhism.
  2. And it explains why many people in distress turn to astrology, tarot cards and other pseudoscientific methods.
  • May they find the solace they seek.

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