Unvalidated Therapies

There is a current concern in psychology surrounding the promotion of unvalidated therapies. This is because empirical validation using randomized controlled trials is considered the measure of a valid therapy.

For example, the SRMHP (Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice) is a publication exploring the issues involved in the spread of unvalidated or potentially pseudoscientific therapies. Concern includes the assertion that such unvalidated therapies encourage clients to forgo validated therapies, it brings the psychology field into disrepute, and increases the spread of misconceptions about the mind throughout society.

Such therapies include:
 * Rebirthing
 * Facilitated communication
 * hypnotic age-regression
 * Thought field therapy
 * Emotional Freedom Technique
 * Past life regression
 * Neurolinguistic programming
 * Primal Scream therapy
 * alien abduction therapy
 * angel therapy