Breaking news! Reliving past traumas over and over as practised in many talk-therapies might not be such a good thing after all!

Following the latest study showing that some anti-depressant drugs are of little clinical benefit for most patients, more and more individuals are likely to seek treatment through various forms of psychotherapy, which collectively have come to be known as “the talking cure”. However, a recent article in the Psychologist journal, entitled When Therapy Causes Harm, cautions that approximately 10% of people get worse after starting therapy.

Read the rest at the Guardian: When it’s bad to talk