Richard Ofshe
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Richard Ofshe is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in "coercive social control; social psychology; influence in police interrogation; influence leading to pseudo-memory in psychotherapy."
He is co-author, with Ethan Watters, of Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria and Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried.
On June 7, 1996, he testified at the pardon hearing for Paul Ingram. In a TV-movie about that case, Forgotten Sins, he was portrayed by William Devane.
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Richard Ofshe academic homepage
