Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria - Brossura

Ofshe, Richard; Watters, Ethan

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ISBN 10: 0520205839 ISBN 13: 9780520205833

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1996

Riassunto

In the last decade, reports of incest have exploded into the national consciousness. Magazines, talk shows, and mass market paperbacks have taken on the subject as many Americans, primarily women, have come forward with graphic memories of childhood abuse.Making Monsters examines the methods of therapists who treat patients for depression by working to draw out memories or, with the use of hypnosis, to encourage fantasies of childhood abuse the patients are told they have repressed. Since this therapy may leave the patient more depressed and alienated than before, questions are appropriately raised here about the ethics and efficacy of such treatment.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520205839
• ISBN 13: 9780520205833
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile