Does CBT help with schizophrenia

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Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia - New Report on Causes and Treatments out from the UK

Comments from Keith Laws and Peter Kinderman re antipsychotics and CBT. Kinderman: Throughout the report we were careful to say that different things help different people, and that (and I quote) “professionals need to acknowledge that the only way someone can find out for sure what helps them personally, is to try things out”. The comment that people have taken objection to is this one: ‘… on average, people gain around as much benefit from CBT as they do from taking psychiatric medication’. I think this is a defensible statement. Of course it’s true that there has not been a series of direct RCT comparisons between antipsychotic medication and CBT; those comparisons have not been conducte…