Re:Problems for CBT

Actually, borderline personality disorder, eating disorders, and PTSD are all problems where CBT has been found to be effective. If intended to suggest that someone who had all three problems at once might not be a good candidate for CBT, I'd say that someone with all three problems at once sounds like a real handful but CBT should be a promising treatment approach. I don't know of any treatment approach that has been shown to be superior to CBT for these three problems.

Getting back to your original question, I can't think of any problems for which CBT has consistently been shown to be inferior to other treatment approaches (if anyone can correct me on this, please do so... there may well be some research I'm not aware of).

We know that CBT works for many problems. For some of these problems, there are other treatment approaches which also have been found to be effective (such as Interpersonal Therapy for depression, Behavior Therapy for a number of anxiety disorders, etc.). With most problems, there hasn't been enough good comparative research for us to know which treatment approaches are most effective.

There certainly are plenty of problems that are hard to treat with CBT (such as the three you listed) but most of these are also hard to treat using other treatment approaches.

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