The Guardian, Health & Wellbeing – Why CBT is Falling Out of Favor – Oliver Burkeman, Published Friday July3rd, 2015
“The old techniques weren’t completely wrong; they’d just outlived their usefulness. If the secret of happiness is hard to find, maybe that’s because the answer keeps changing.”
Or, maybe it’s our human misguided longing to delineate, label and simplify. Yes, I can see that the character of the American people has shifted from “Victorian” (thank goodness!) to a more eclectic, spontaneous and authentic way of existing.
More useful, though, is the danger of shoehorning human health and vitality into theoretic prototypes (and then arguing which prototype is more efficacious). The old yarn about CBT versus Psychodynamic versus MBSR versus Emotionally Focused, …blah, blah, blah. It’s like arguing whether cars are better than trains. Use the vehicle that serves the moment. Both providers and clients are well served to have the best of all the approaches at their disposal. It’s Both/And…always Both/And.