Yesterday's New York Times had a thorough article on the debate over psychotherapy effectiveness research (whether insurance companies should rigorously base their reimbursements on demonstrated effectiveness, should practitioners be required to closely follow procedures from manuals?, can the complexity of what goes on in a therapy room be captured in research studies?, etc.).

One of the scholars quoted in the article is Drew Westen, a professor at Emory University. Drew was a clinical psychology graduate student in the 1980s at the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. He has been a very prolific author over the years. Drew and I will occasionally run into each other at conferences and chat briefly.

If you're already a registered NY Times user, you can just click here to see the article that quotes Drew, for the time being at least. If you're not already registered, you can complete the free process by going to the Times' main page.