Ruth Williams

MA (Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies)

Jungian Analyst - Analytical Psychologist.
Integrative Psychotherapist and Supervisor.
British Psychoanalytic Council accredited.
UK Council for Psychotherapy registered.
Clinical Supervisor and Member BAPPS.

Research /Evidence

This is an account published by someone who has been in therapy herself (not with me) and gives an interesting insight into the experience. See:
https://www.theguardian.com /lifeandstyle/ 2022/ apr/30/  what-ive-learned-from-10-years-of-therapy-and-why-its-time-to-stop?

For an up-to-date appraisal of the scientific status of psychoanalysis which contains high-quality references to studies, see https://goo.gl/Ub5Sgg

The British Government have begun to advocate the provision of so-called “talking therapies”. The following is a link to a site containing a number of references to studies tracking the efficacy of various types of therapy: www.iapt-cbt.info

See also www.uni-saarland.de/ fak5/krause/ ulm97/keller.htm for a study on the effectiveness and efficacy of outpatient (Jungian) psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, and also
http://nvpp.nl/Jonathan ShedlerStudy20100202.pdf

See interesting article in The Guardian in January 2016:
www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/07/therapy-wars-revenge-of-freud-cognitive-behavioural-therapy

In 2015 a conference was organised by Limbus Critical Psychotherapy entitled “Challenging the Cognitive Behavioural Therapies: The Overselling of CBT’s Evidence Base”. The talks from this event by leading practitioners can be viewed here:
www.youtube.com/channel/ UCS_rv5vYv4HfTchv_beiqhQ

Written papers from the conference may be found here: www.limbus.org.uk/ cbt/papers.html

See
www.scottdmiller.com/feedback-informed-treatment-fit/swedish-national-audit-office-concludes-when-all-you-have-is-cbt-mental-health-suffers/