Beliefs Underlying the Bias Against Psychotherapy for Biologically Construed Mental Illnesses and Interventions to Correct This Bias

Many people believe psychotherapy is less effective for biologically-construed mental illnesses because they believe that psychotherapy is for the mind rather than the brain, that people cannot control the brain, and that presence of biological etiologies means absence of psychosocial causes. Interventions for each of these misconceptions were found effective.