Effectors Anonymous

Some people want to recover from something. Rather than grouping around that something (chocoholics?, flunking out of college? relationship abuse?). Groups could form around any one of the coping strategies that have strong quantitative support from psychology-as-a-quantitative- science.

We will imagine that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) utilizing the specific technique of "exposure desensitization" is quantitatively described (published) as more effective than Effexor.

Rather than a group of people all talking about chocolate in a room you would have a group of people getting together and talking about “exposure desensitization” and describing actual things they are doing with that technique.

There is a kind of index site to live get togethers called Meetup.com. Meetup.com could have or index these complimentary therapist-free groups.

To my perception, different people have different personalities, and tests like the Big Five can profile these personalities. I think it is possible that the live get- togethers would assist the extroverts and the people low on conscientiousness, to stick with their recovery plan longer. That makes it a kind of "quantitatively measurable recovery support" group.

This could also have the benefit of popularizing what, according to quantitative research, works. I am imagining two people who want to recover from different things saying "I hear denial (as a tested practiced mechanism) works! I'd try the denial group but the densensitization group is like twice as effective!"