> it should be noted that CBT might confuse cause and effect

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/feeling-good/202503/... explicitly discusses the arrow of causality here

> and the goal is to mold the behavior of people into something socially wanted or expected or just learn to live with something that cannot reasonably be changed.

There are lots of crackpot approaches to psychotherapy, but I do believe that most therapists genuinely want to help patients/clients to recover, not just mold them into something socially accepted.

Less clear whether that's true of researchers.