On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 DoreneFC at aol.com wrote:
> A couple comments, sadly without appropriate citiations, from some experience
> being a bean counter at an HMO:
>
> --Pills are cheaper than live therapy. That alone carries a great deal
> of weight but pills when they work also produce results that are more
> "measureable" than the results of talk therapy.
This is simply incorrect: careful, experimental trials using reliable measures of depressive symptoms have demonstrated that cog-behavioral therapy is as effective or more effective than SSRIs. The effects of "talk therapy" are easily measured!
Miles