Posted by zeugma on January 11, 2006, at 18:07:03
In reply to Benzos and CBT, posted by chess on January 10, 2006, at 22:11:05
my therapist says neurochemically there is a blunting effect that benzos make when forming new memories, maybe he's right and maybe not>>
i don't go to CB therapists for neurochemical insights, actually i don't go to anyone for that because I didn't know the science was so far along.
But I do remember quite clearly that CBT practitioners don't like benzos. CBT's general aversion to benzos likely antedates recent insights into the mechanisms of memory formation.
They don't mind SSRI's at all, however. It would be interesting to conduct empirical research into which class of drugs exerts more "blunting" effects on the process of memory encoding. Except this would be unenlightening, since "blunting" can't be very precisely defined.
-z
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