Do all types of therapy work equally well?

A quick-and-dirty directory of different therapy modalities and their relative strengths and weaknesses, so we can stop competing and start differentiating for greater efficacy.
A Short Review of ‘Strangers to Ourselves’

Why do people do the things they do? Competing theories arise in every age. The more popular an explanatory idea becomes, the more it’s exercised to extremes, only to be answered with a countervailing idea which, again overshoots in the other direction. The pendulum swings. The ship is tilted to starboard, then all the shipmates run to port and it tilts too far in the opposite direction.