All you need is cognitive behaviour therapy?  Commentary: Benevolent scepticism is just what the doctor ordered  Commentary: Yes, cognitive behaviour therapy may well be all you need  Commentary: Symptoms or relationships  Commentary: The "evidence" is weaker than claimed

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7332.288

BMJ 2002;324:288-294 ( 2 February )

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All you need is cognitive behaviour therapy?

Commentary: Benevolent scepticism is just what the doctor ordered

Commentary: Yes, cognitive behaviour therapy may well be all you need

Commentary: Symptoms or relationships

Commentary: The "evidence" is weaker than claimed

All you need is cognitive behaviour therapy?

Jeremy Holmes, consultant psychiatrist in psychotherapy.

Department of Mental Health, University of Exeter, North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple EX31 4JB

j.a.holmes@btinternet.com

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Psychotherapy, traditionally psychiatry's Cinderella treatment, has finally reached the consciousness of mental health policymakers. The trend started with the 1996 NHS Strategic Review,Psychotherapy Services in England.¹ This set out a programmefor coordinated, evidence based, comprehensive, safe, and equitableprovision of psychotherapy $---$ and pointed to the gap between theseideals and current reality. A sister publication, What Works forWhom? summarised the evidence for psychotherapy "best buys" inall the major psychiatric diagnoses.² Then came the MentalHealth National Service Framework and the National Plan, whichemphasised psychological therapies as equal players alongsidephysical and social measures in the management and preventionof mental illness. ³ ⁴ Most recently, the Department of Health'sTreatment Choice in Psychological Therapies and Counselling providesan evidence based guideline to help family doctors and psychotherapistsallocate common mental disorders to appropriate psychologicaltherapies.⁵

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