Where To Get "Both Sides" of Professional Controversies?
(For reference, I'm an early career clinician who graduated from a CBT focused program and is working in the VA system.) I keep finding myself wishing there was a good journal or even website to read nuanced conversations between informed professionals about some of the important controversies in our field.
For example: I work with several folks who swear by EMDR for their patients with PTSD (and also offer PE and CPT), but I work with others who think the theory behind EMDR is pseudoscience. When I try to learn more from either camp, they are completely dug in on their positions. I can of course read the many studies and meta-analyses published about EMDR, or read some of the publications criticizing it, but I've been finding that neither of those bodies of work are really engaging with the points made by the other side in a meaningful way. I realize a big part of doctoral training is to gain the tools to do this synthesis on your own, but we all also know it's a lot of work to get to that level of competency on every topic of this kind that comes our way.
So how does everyone else approach these issues? Do you have trusted resources you go to gain a deeper understanding of these issues without having to review the full literature on the topic? If not, do you have any recommendations on how to think about these things as they arise?