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A 1985 paper entitled ''Does professional training make a therapist more effective?'' which was published by the University of Texas reported there was no substantial difference in between the results that laymen and trained psychologists are able to achieve.<ref>http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2007/Berman%20session%207_1986-02211-001.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3901068</ref>
A 1985 paper entitled ''Does professional training make a therapist more effective?'' which was published by the University of Texas reported there was no substantial difference in between the results that laymen and trained psychologists are able to achieve.<ref>http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2007/Berman%20session%207_1986-02211-001.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3901068</ref>
== Psychiatric quackery revealed by race often causing misdiagnosis ==
In 2005, The ''Washington Post'' reported:
{{Cquote|John Zeber recently examined one of the nation's largest databases of psychiatric cases to evaluate how doctors diagnose schizophrenia, a disorder that often portends years of powerful brain-altering drugs, social ostracism and forced hospitalizations.
Although schizophrenia has been shown to affect all ethnic groups at the same rate, the scientist found that blacks in the United States were more than four times as likely to be diagnosed with the disorder as whites. Hispanics were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed as whites.<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/27/AR2005062701496.html</ref>}}
==Materialism in Psychology==
==Materialism in Psychology==