Alienation as EBP

Evidence-Based Psychotherapy reifies neoliberal subjectivities, rendering psychotherapy complicit with efforts to manage the poor by rationalizing inequality and privatizing responsibility.

We are told evidence-based psychotherapy (EBP) is the culmination of a shift away from risky, ineffective practices grounded in untested assumptions to those that provide safe, helpful assistance. In this narrative, EBP encompasses psychotherapies whose effectiveness has been proven by science. In reality EBP refers to short-term, manualized, symptom-fo…