The New York Times
Psychotherapy is having yet another identity crisis. It has manifested itself in two recent trends in the profession in America : the first involves trying to make therapy into more of a « hard science » by putting a new emphasis on measurable factors ; the other is a growing belief among therapists that the standard practice of using talk therapy to discover traumas in a patient’s past is not only unnecessary but can be injurious.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/01/opinion/edphillips.php