https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq6TIiBRP04
I spent a day with Past Life Regressionists to learn the truth about what it's like to receive a past life regression session.. Sponsors This episode is spo

https://www.mdlinx.com/article/5-inhumane-mental-health-treatments-that-paved-the-way-for-future-research/45InWvRBuY7FrLj4kyGDB4
Questionable treatments include bloodletting, lobotomies, trepanation, tooth extraction, and convulsive therapy. Neurologists and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) can continue to learn from the mistakes of the past to ensure safe and healthy practices for today's patients with mental illness. Patients with mental illness have been

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/scream-therapy-science
Robbins told West to stand in warrior pose and scream. It was so-called "scream therapy," or more technically, "primal therapy.". First developed by psychologist Arthur Janov, primal

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-mental-health/202209/the-mysterious-case-electroconvulsive-therapy
Electroconvulsive therapy, commonly known as ECT, is a controversial method of treating people with mental disorders by exposing their brains to electric currents. The electric current induces

https://www.livescience.com/37117-controversial-mental-health-treatments.html
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), first used in the 1930s, involves placing electrodes on the forehead and passing electrical currents through the brain in order to induce a seizure lasting 30 to

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/16/magazine/does-therapy-work.html
Jonathan Shedler, a psychodynamic psychologist and vocal critic of the research on therapy, believes that the field, in its narrow focus on reducing symptoms, fails to capture other ways patients

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovered-memory_therapy
Recovered-memory therapy (RMT) is a catch-all term for a controversial and scientifically discredited form of psychotherapy that critics say utilizes one or more unproven therapeutic techniques (such as some forms of psychoanalysis, hypnosis, journaling, past life regression, guided imagery, and the use of sodium amytal interviews) to purportedly help patients recall previously forgotten memories.

https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/aversion-therapy
Aversion therapy is most known for treating people with addictive behaviors, like those found in alcohol use disorder. Most research has been focused on its benefits relating to substance use

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-advances/article/controversial-treatments-in-psychiatry/73B5341BAD0455787AA32D01FCE0CCD8
Summary. Psychiatry uses some of the most controversial treatments in medicine. This may be partly because several are administered under coercion and opposed to the patient's expressed will, under the protection of the relevant mental health legislation. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is perhaps the archetypal controversial treatment

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/
Credit: Science Museum, London Wellcome Images (CC BY 4.0) ECT was invented in Italy in the late 1930s. Psychiatrists had already discovered that inducing seizures could relieve symptoms of mental

https://psychotherapy.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.2013.67.1.73
It is the thesis of this paper that differences in philosophical assumptions about the subject matter and treatment methods of psychotherapy have contributed to disagreements about the external validity of empirically supported therapies (ESTs). These differences are evident in the theories that are the basis for both the design and interpretation of recent psychotherapy efficacy studies. The

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/theory-knowledge/202103/psychotherapy-in-the-21st-century-what-we-can-agree
If so, we might really start to build the foundation of a science of psychotherapy that moves us forward in the next 100 years—but hopefully sooner—finally addressing and answering the

https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-therapy-8402567
View All. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Psychodynamic Therapy. Family Therapy. Other Types of Therapy to Consider A to Z. Psychotherapy is not a one-size-fits-all approach to treating mental health conditions.

https://www.apa.org/topics/psychotherapy/approaches
Approaches to psychotherapy fall into five broad categories: Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies. This approach focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings, and thoughts by discovering their unconscious meanings and motivations. Psychoanalytically oriented therapies are characterized by a close working partnership between

https://www.aacap.org/App_Themes/AACAP/docs/Advocacy/policy_resources/AACAP-conversion-therapy-issue-brief.pdf
698,000 LGBT adults (18-59 years old) have received conversion therapy, of which approximately 50% were adolescents when treated; nal, if not for the ban; and57,000 adolescents (13-17 years old) nationally will receive conversion therapy delivered by a religiou. vidence on Benefits vs. Harms• What is known about gender identity incongruence

https://positivepsychology.com/paradoxical-intent/
Paradoxical intention is a cognitive technique that involves persuading clients to engage in their most feared behavior. The approach can help individuals experiencing anxiety, fear, phobias, eating disorders, and even depression, by encouraging them to face the fear itself (Ascher, 2002). The role of paradoxical intention is to assist

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902017/
'Conversion therapy' is an 'umbrella term' to describe 'a multitude of practices and methods' to change or suppress an individual's sexuality or gender identity. 19 Each involve 'attempts to pathologize and erase the identity of individuals'. 21 A wide range of practices have been reported, including 'corrective' rape and

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4939-0401-3_23
Abstract. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a group of neurodevelopmental disorders that share overlapping diagnostic criteria ranging in symptom severity. Currently, diagnoses of ASD are based on a triad of observable behaviors including impairments in communication, impairments in socialization, and repetitive behaviors and restricted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy
Conversion therapy is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, ... As societal attitudes toward homosexuality have become more tolerant over time, the most harsh conversion therapy methods such as aversion have been reduced. Secular conversion therapy is offered less often due to reduced medical

https://academic.oup.com/book/41967/chapter/355203972
Abstract. There are no quick and easy ways of overcoming a specific learning difficulty, but conventional management, as outlined in this book, will always bring results eventually. When there is no effective cure for a condition, numerous dubious 'cures' arise. The existence of a number of so-called cures is usually a sign that no single

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-80415-008
This chapter addresses what could be variously labeled faddish, dubious, controversial, pseudoscientific, or politically correct treatments. None are necessarily designated as exclusively being in one category since, for example, a treatment could be faddish, controversial, and politically correct (Foxx & Mulick, 2016). Given the plethora of interventions that fall into one or more of the

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-31879-002
Acceptance or rejection of approaches to treating psychological problems has varied considerably over time as a function of scientific progress and the Zeitgeist of the society in question. Controversy may arise in the context of new discoveries, cultural preferences, religious values, historical trends, and other social forces. As a reaction toward improved treatment outcomes, the medical and

https://www.reddit.com/r/physicaltherapy/comments/h0r24m/is_the_mckenzie_method_generally_regarded_as_a/
This may be a controversial topic but the evidence in favor is relatively strong as far as evidence for conservative treatment of LBP goes. It's a very good classification system at the very least. It also depends on the clinicians competency using this method as not all clinicians are created equal.