Take a look at two pages apparently reviewed by the Cleveland Clinic over at WebMD:
Psychotherapy to Treat Depression
Medication is mentioned 4 times in the psychotherapy article. Psychotherapy is mentioned zero times in the medication article. The words “medical cause” is …
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John ~~ “Why is there this obvious editorial bias at WebMD…”
hmmmm…. let me think… advertising revenue?
I don’t think that’s it, or all of it.
The medical bias and this need by some professionals to find a purely biological cause of mental disorders, I believe, is more of the reason behind it. Many medical doctors couldn’t imagine treatment for a mental disorder that didn’t involve medication. I believe that to be more a result of their years of training under the medical model, not pharma ads or influence.
The articles have since been updated and while the bias is lessened and softened, it’s still there (the psychotherapy article still mentions medications, while the medications article has no mention of psychotherapy).