Three articles for this month. The first is a new form of psychiatry that may come to eventually replace the traditional psychoanalysis. The second is really a business school paper than a science article, but I found it interesting nonetheless. The last one is an amusing insight into the paradox of why whales even exist.

The first one is from The Economist and covers is new form of psychiatric treatment now called Cognitive-bias modification (CBM). The article explains that the conventional form of treatment now recognized is psychoanalysis which everyone associates with lying down on a couch and talking out your problems to a sympathetic therapist. Psychoanalysis seems to be a reasonably effective remedy for a variety of common ailments but takes too long and is therefore too expensive. CBM on the other hand seems to work after just a few 15-minute sessions and you even need a therapist for it. A specialized computer program simply takes the place of the therapist.

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