Jan Ivar Røssberg

In psychotherapy, there are principles and there are preferences.

People tend to mistake their personal preferences for principles.

We have 400+ therapeutic modalities because of preferences, not principles.

Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine A trial that used a master randomized design found that the skills commonly found in smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy, when tested alone or in combination with behavioral activation, were...

🚨 Just out in Nature Medicine: the RESiLIENT study (n=3,936; 9 CBT-based arms vs 3 controls)
📱 Massive RCT of smartphone-delivered CBT skills
It challenges major assumptions in psychotherapy research.
📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵Three key insights:

Psykoterapi: Dette ville vi aldri godtatt om det gjaldt legemidler DEBATT: Mens legemiddelindustrien er pålagt å undersøke negative effekter av legemidler før godkjenning, er det helt opp til psykologene selv om de skal gjøre dette i kliniske studier på psykologisk b...

I forbindelse med en artikkelserie på @forskning.bsky.social om karakteranalytisk psykoterapi, skriver jeg om den manglende/fraværende reguleringen av psykologisk behandling.
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Den er så bra Joar!

Agree wholeheartedly that waitlist is not acceptable as a “placebo” condition. But I would take it further; waitlist is, perhaps with a few exceptions, never an adequate and acceptable control condition in trials examining treatments for mental disorders.

Frontiers | The influence of mood and social relationships on the intensity of basic self-disturbance: an experience sampling method investigation

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“Psychiatry at the margins doesn’t just mean innovative trauma-informed care or radical mutual aid—it also means the rise of quackery, grifters, and reactionary forces exploiting the collapse of institutional credibility.” DuBrul 👇🏽

Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) chatbots hold promise for building highly personalized, effective mental health treatments at scale, while also addressing user engagement and retention ...

Randomized Trial of a Generative AI Chatbot for Mental Health Treatment | NEJM AI ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

As most things in clinical psychology, the evidence for and the effectiveness of deliberate practice is exaggerated.

Varig bedring finnes ikke i bunnen av flaska Alkoholproblemer og depresjon opptrer ofte samtidig, og de utgjør et større problem sammen enn hver for seg. Løsningen er ikke å behandle bare den ene.

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To Make America Healthy Again, it will be crucial for the CDC to spend millions of research funds to revisit the idea of whether eating chocolate causes Nobel prize winners.

Samtale og medisiner mot depresjon hos fastlegen Ved å tilby tilleggsbehandling allerede hos fastlegen vil vi kunne gi bedre og mer varig hjelp til pasienten, og dermed reduserer presset på hele helsetjenesten.

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Undervisningsprisen på profesjonsstudiet 2025 og foreningsdagen våren 2025 - Det medisinske fakultet Velkommen til overrekkelse av undervisningsprisen på profesjonsstudiet medisin og vårens foreningsdag på fakultetet.

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Some scattered thoughts after the most shocking and horrible moment of US diplomacy most of us have ever seen. Not even sure what the point of writing anything about this is, but here goes. 1/

Delusions and Conspiracy Theories A blog about imperfect cognitions, such as delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, and implicit biases.

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Mental health misinformation is rampant on social media.

In our new study, 33% of top viewed TikTok videos that offered advice and information were misleading.

These videos were watched over 1 billion times.

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Lurer du på noe om bipolare lidelser. Hva symptomene er og hva som er best mulig behandling? Lytt til denne ferske episoden av Psykopoden og hør overlege Siv Hege Lyngstad fortelle om det- shorturl.at/zzyj2

The thing that kills me about this is you can Google ‘is 85% of science research waste’ and the first thing that comes up is a retrospective article about the figure.

By the authors who were at the time the head of the Evidence Based Medicine crew at Oxford and the cofounder of Cochrane.

Hawking vs. Philosophy Stephen Hawking declared the death of philosophy. Was he right? Has science rendered philosophy obsolete? Should we be looking to science to answer the biggest questions, or are there areas of…

Has science killed philosophy? | https://buff.ly/4hOOgMJ

Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and @jderbyshire.ft.com investigate the limits of science and philosophy.

#philsci #philosophy 🧪

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

Starmer backs Zelensky after Trump 'dictator' claim The prime minister spoke to Zelensky on the phone and expressed support for "Ukraine's democratically elected leader".

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90s scientists: “We cloned a sheep! We landed a robot on mars!”

Scientists today: “For the last time, the earth is round.”

- Ben Rosen

Global folkehelse i fare Smitte kjenner ikke landegrenser og kan ikke bekjempes av hvert land for seg.

Viktig tekst av fire overleger i smittevern ved FHI. Det som skjer i USA nå setter det globale folkehelsearbeidet i fare. www.nrk.no/ytring/globa...

Psychotherapy under the microscope: how exactly does it work? | Psyche Ideas To improve psychotherapy, researchers are looking beyond what happens in a session to learn exactly how change is achieved

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Vi kan bygge fremtidens Norge med hjernene som flykter fra Trump For vitenskapen og verden er situasjonen i USA et stort tap. Men for lille, rike Norge er mulighetene enorme, skriver Tore Wig.

Helhjertet enig med @torewig.bsky.social i @morgenbladet.no : Vi må gjøre Norge til en attraktiv havn for de kloke hodene som nå flykter fra USA.

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Sju av 10 ble ikke fulgt opp som anbefalt etter å ha fått antidepressiver | Magasinet Psykisk helse En måned etter oppstart av legemiddelbehandling for depresjon, hadde én av tre pasienter ikke fått noen oppfølging hos fastlegen. Og syv av ti pasienter fikk ingen oppfølging de to første ukene. Det v...

Ny studie viser svak oppfølging av pasienter som fikk antidepressive legemidler.
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Direct serotonin release in humans shapes aversive learning and inhibition - Nature Communications Serotonin is involved in aversive processing, but how serotonin shapes behavior remains unclear. Here, the authors show that directly enhancing synaptic serotonin in humans reduces outcome sensitivity...

A 2024 study — “Direct serotonin release in humans shapes aversive learning and inhibition”

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Reviewing "effectiveness trials" in psychotherapy