Myers on DBT

[sawyl]

I liked the characteristically pithy attitude from PZ Myers towards his university's decision to offer cut price Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to its staff:

I think a university sponsored program to help employees deal with stress is a great idea. However, real programs that are effective are built upon evidence-based medicine, not the frivolous and fuzzy nonsense that we get from the Center for Spirituality and Healing. When our institution endorses "mindful meditation", a procedure that is pretty much indistinguishable from the placebo response, they are literally doing the very least they can do for us.

Ouch.