Synopsis
Looks at the history of recovered memory therapy, argues that this approach creates false memories, and assesses the damage done by those memories
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"The descriptions [the] authors give of the 'therapeutic' practices by which memories are recovered are a frightening indictment of at least some members of the burgeoning therapy industry, of its heads-I-win and tails-you-lose approach to moral rectitude, and of its capacities for self-delusion."--Steven Rose, "Washington Post Book World
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Richard Ofshe, a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, is one of the nation's foremost authorities on tactics of coercion and a co-recipient of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for public service reporting. Ethan Watters, a freelance journalist, published one of the first articles on pseudo-memory in the popular press.
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Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
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