Talk:Psychotherapy

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Please, If you can, explain me that
In the intro is written that psychotherapy may be "concucted with groups, including families." But the Family psychotherapy is different from the Group psychotherapy. I tried to edit it but my English is insufficient. Explain me please why I was wrong. Thank you. Chomsky (talk) 14:11, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
 * In the broad sense of the word a family is still a group of people. It links to both group therapy and family therapy, so the reader shouldn't think that these are the same thing. As it stands, I don't see a problem with the current way it's written.--Megaman en m (talk) 16:14, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Chomsky (talk) 07:20, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Please, allow me to notice you that I did not understand what is "psychotherapy conducted with groups" until I visited the link. The construction "psychotherapy concucted with groups" is hard to understand (especially if the groups are exemplified by "families"). When the article was rewieved at 26 August 2006 it had excellent intro. As well as the Simple English Wikipedia has good intro. And the Britannica.com, too. I can't bear your wrong intro supported by a single source which even appears in contradiction with it. Chomsky (talk) 06:20, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * It's difficult for me to think of any alternative phrasing that would be more understandable. Did you have something in mind? -- Beland (talk) 16:43, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

How the group psychotherapies can contain the family psychotherapies?
Any psychotherapies (except the family psychotherapies) contain only partially the same which contain the group psychotherapies (for example, that members are not acquaintances). The family psychotherapies would have to contain fully the same which contain the group psychotherapies. This they can't satisfy. They can't be the representatives of the group psychotherapies, belong to them. Do you agree? Chomsky (talk) 15:16, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean. Families are a proper subset of groups. Group therapy might involve friends, families, or strangers. -- Beland (talk) 16:46, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Sentence on pseudoscience
In this edit, the following sentence was removed from the lead section without a rationale or edit summary (by an editor who has an unhelpful habit of making major changes without writing edit summaries): "Certain types of psychotherapy are considered evidence-based for treating some diagnosed mental disorders, and other types have been criticized as pseudoscience. For example:

The pseudoscience part was added by in this edit. I am not going to restore the sentence myself, but I am noting it here in case anyone else considers it important. Biogeographist (talk) 12:41, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note, I've re-added the sentence. -- Beland (talk) 16:46, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

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