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@article{Lilienfeld2007PsychologicalTT,
  title={Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm},
  author={Scott O. Lilienfeld},
  journal={Perspectives on Psychological Science},
  year={2007},
  volume={2},
  pages={53 - 70},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:26512757}
}

The field of psychology should prioritize its efforts toward identifying potentially harmful therapies (PHTs) and place greater emphasis on potentially dangerous than on empirically supported therapies.

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