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Sahanika Ratnayake, Postdoctoral Researcher, Evidence Synthesis, University of Manchester

We’ve been testing therapy like it’s a pill – and some patients are paying the price

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If you’ve had therapy, particularly if you got it through a public healthcare system like the NHS in the UK or Medicare in Australia, there’s a good chance it was cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Even with private health insurance, if you want therapy, the one you are most likely to be recommended is CBT.

This is quite strange when you consider how many types of therapy there are. Psychoanalysis is well known, but there’s also humanistic therapy, existential therapy and body therapy, to name a few.

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