Medical approaches to suffering are limited, so why critique Improving Access to Psychological Therapies from the same ideology

This is the title of James Binnie’s commentary on my paper, he adds that my findings of a 10% recovery rate in IAPT are ‘quite shocking’. His paper and mine are available by clicking the following links:

https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318769323

https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318755264

Commentaries and my commentary on the commentaries will be available in a Special Issue

of the Journal of Health Psychology this Summer. It’s great to get some public debate, it has been difficult because many are not in a position to voice their concerns openly.

Dr Mike Scott