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On this day, 17 July 2014, Eric Garner was murdered by police enforcing a civic ordinance.

It is wild when you start doing any research at all into the efficacy of different psychotherapeutic modalities and like 90% of the studies say: "CBT is by far the most practiced and widely available form of therapy and it essentially does nothing". But its cheap and easy and fits society's perception of what therapy is for so it just keeps getting touted as an effective intervention.

Also kind of crazy that like CBT is studied WAY more than any other therapy modality, by a huge margin, and almost all the studies on its efficacy are like: "CBT is about as effective as just talking about your problems with someone who listens and is empathetic, and pretty much all of the positive benefits of CBT can be attributed to having a dedicated person to talk to". And yet the conclusion is still: "CBT is the best and we should be giving it to everybody for everything!!"

Like, it's so clearly a self-perpetuating system? CBT is one of the most common and widely available forms of therapy because its cheap and easy and requires very little training to administer and also neatly aligns with the goals and values of neoliberal society -> CBT is widely studied because it is the most commonly available form of therapy for people to access, and thus it is easier to study because there is a large pool of practitioners/clients to draw from -> studies of CBT are not adequately compared to studies of other forms of therapy (even other forms of talk therapy) because there aren't enough studies/data on other modalities to compare to -> studies of CBT claim that its an effective modality because its more effective than doing literally nothing, and comparison to other modalities is lacking -> studies claiming the effectiveness of CBT are used to justify administering more CBT to more people, creating a larger available pool of practitioners/patients to study, and on and on and on.