Meet the Expert: Dr. Farhad Dalal about "The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami: How CBT became the dominant psychotherapy"

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"The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami: How CBT became the dominant psychotherapy" with Dr. Farhad Dalal — renowned psychotherapist, group analyst, and author of the groundbreaking book “CBT: The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami”.

Date: 11 December 2025
Time: 19:00–20:30 CEST (Berlin time)
Language: English with simultaneous Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian translation.

Over the last decades a ruthless power struggle has been taking place between the ‘psy' professions – psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy & psychoanalysis – a struggle for credibility, prestige and power. Today, it would seem that psychiatry and clinical psychology have won the day on all three counts. They claim that their victory is deserved, because they have been able to produce and reproduce objective empirical evidence for their claims. There is however, another story to be told about this victory, which is a story about deceit, the manipulation of people and data, as well as distortions of reality; this has resulted in the corruption of science as well as the scientific ideal. This talk will be about this other (hidden-in-plain-sight) story, and argues that the victory of CBT was not about science, but politics and ideology.

Farhad Dalal PhD is a psychotherapist and Group Analyst in private practice in Devon, UK. He is trying (and failing) to retire. With colleagues, he is delivering a group psychotherapy training in India. He has published four books to date: Taking the Group Seriously, Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization, Thought Paralysis: The Virtues of Discrimination, and CBT – The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics and the Corruptions of Science. He is currently writing on ethics. www.dalal.org.uk

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Meet the Expert: Dr. Farhad Dalal about "The Cognitive Behavioral Tsunami: How CBT became the dominant psychotherapy"

Thursday Dec 11 2025, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Online via Zoom

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