The importance of Context for Cognitive/ Emotional Health

For­tu­nate­ly, our field has moved beyond par­ti­san, and some­times polit­i­cal, pref­er­ence and now asks, What treat­ment is most effec­tive for which patients in what con­text?” — Ray­mon A. Levy and J. Stu­art Ablon, clin­i­cal direc­tor and direc­tor of the psy­chother­a­py research pro­gram in the depart­ment of psy­chi­a­try at Mass­a­chu­setts Gen­er­al Hospital.

Yes­ter­day’s New York Times Book Review includ­ed some Let­ters to the Edi­tor that were even bet­ter that the orig­i­nal book review of Amer­i­can Ther­a­py.

We are see­ing a grow­ing num­ber of research-based tools and tech­niques (includ­ing cog­ni­tive ther­a­py, reviewed in the arti­cle) to mea­sure and help main­tain cog­ni­tive and emo­tion­al health, both tech­nol­o­gy-based and tech­nol­o­gy-free. Now, none of them is a gen­er­al solu­tion (in the same way that no sin­gle drug is best for every­one and every­thing), so the ques­tion posed above could­n’t be more relevant.

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