Science and Art Come Together
This morning I read a piece in the New York Times about therapy—“Looking for Evidence That Therapy Works.” The article expresses concern about how few mental health workers are using evidence-based therapies, especially CBT, but instead “see their work as an art” and “believe that they have skills that allow them to tailor a treatment to a client that’s better than any scientist can come up with with all their data.” I unapologetically skew toward the “artistic” side. Just th