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Prof renews psychology controversy

Timothy Baker has a problem with psychology today. He thinks it bears a dangerous resemblance to the medicine of yesteryear: anecdotal, unscientific, as likely to hurt as help. “[D]espite compelling research support for the merits of specific interventions for specific problems, clinical psychology, as a field, has failed to embrace these treatments,” writes Baker, a professor of medicine at the UW-Madisonâ??s School of Medicine and Public Health, in a paper thatâ??s generating national attention and controversy.