>>12994199*some* effect yes. but so does spending some time in an ashram. CBT with its 'your emotions are wrong, just feel differently!' and 'behold our secret weapon, the TODO list' certainly isn't going to cure anyone with actual psychological problems that aren't just a mild depression. it's much better than 'it's all your parents fault, you need to shun your family!' or 'derrida wrote that blah blah blah. ' though.
t. almost a year in various clinics, 300+ hours of CBT, ~50 hours of DBT and another hundred or so hours with various psychoanalysts but still very far from being a normie and only functional because of medication