The News
Psychotherapy can prove harmful to certain patients: Report
New York, June 11: Psychotherapy -- the treatment method used to cure emotional disorders by counselling and communicating with patients -- could be dangerous for some, a media report said today. "The profession hasn't shown much interest in the problem of treatments that can be harmful. Of the few psychotherapies that have been for safety, too many cause harm to at least some patients," Newsweek quoted psychology professor Scott Lilienfeld of Emory University as saying. Few patients seeking psychotherapy know that talking can be dangerous and the therapies are not "exactly rushing to tell them so," it said.

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