“That would be disempowering and arrogant.” “I’m not teaching it, but I’m not saying you can’t bring this into the room,” California psychologist Charlynn Ruan told Yar. Some psychotherapists incorporate these unconventional practices into their therapy, or at any rate do not discourage patients from pursuing them. Those who favor these alternatives tend to be young, female and affluent, Yar notes. “People are putting their trust - and their money - into these practices, which they view as pathways to enlightenment,” Sanam Yar reports in The New York Times. That, at any rate, is how a science-minded skeptic might respond to a flurry of media coverage of people turning to astrology, tarot cards and psychic readings as alternatives or supplements to conventional psychotherapy. Waves of wackiness are sweeping the U.S., as people troubled by reality seek comfort in pseudoscientific nonsense.
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