June 30, 2011
Blurb
Re “Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?” (Sunday Review, June 26): Susan Cain asserts that cognitive behavioral therapy emphasizes what is wrong with the patient. First and foremost, the goal of C.B.T. is to relieve the suffering of excessive anxiety. No effort is made to change the basic personality and temperament of the child...The writer, director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders, is president of the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.
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