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alistaircormack
Oct 11, 2023
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This will be a place where I add interesting links and comment on matters pertaining to psychotherapy.

This is a key essay by Mark Solms https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020924/

There is a fallacy that psychoanalysis does not have a scientific basis. This essay shows this is not the case. It also explores what elements of the therapy process are genuinely therapeutic and why.

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