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Cognitive therapy was also shown to be somewhat superior to antidepressants.

After sending me the paper, Beck e-mailed derisively, "The last time there was a claim for a New Wave ...

was the proclamation of 'transpersonal psychology,' which purported to demonstrate some mystical forces between individuals, including, I believe, transmigration of the soul." But even some cognitive therapists admit that despite 40 years of research, some fundamental questions about the therapy haven't been resolved.

That's partly because cognitive therapy involves a variety of techniques.

In addition to questioning negative thoughts in the therapy office, cognitive therapists use behavioral homework assignments-for instance, phobic patients may be asked to expose themselves to fears (like Beck going through the tunnel).

Depressed clients are asked to schedule regular activities.

But if cognitive therapy is all those things, critics say, maybe getting better is a matter of merely changing old behaviors, not questioning negative beliefs.

Beck hypothesizes that the cognitive parts of the therapy-challenging thoughts, developing new beliefs-add value to the changes in everyday behavior and routine that the therapy encourages.

But he acknowledges that no trial has proved that.

In fact, a team at the University of Washington has shown in two studies that the cognitive elements of the therapy add nothing.

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