Crazy Therapies (book)
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 Crazy Therapies |
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| Author | Margaret Singer Janja Lalich |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject(s) | psychology |
| Genre(s) | nonfiction psychology |
| Publisher | Jossey-Bass |
| Released | September 27, 1996 |
| Media type | Hardcover |
| Pages | 263 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-7879-0278-0 |
| Preceded by | Cults in Our Midst |
| Followed by | Bounded Choice |
Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work? is a nonfiction book by psychologist Margaret Singer, Ph.D. and Janja Lalich, Ph.D., published by Jossey-Bass in 1996.
Contents |
[edit] Advice for psychotherapy patients
The book's intended audience is psychiatric and psychotherapy patients. It discusses a list of severe warning signs that psychotherapy patients should avoid, regardless of the psychotherapist's credentials, or reputation. These are discussed in detail, and quantified into ten classic behaviour patterns, which include: potential sexual abuse, asking the patient to perform menial chores, discussing the psychotherapist's problems in detail, asking the patient to cut off relations with friends and family, diagnosing the patient's condition before thoroughly discussing the issue, claiming the patient must be hypnotized in order to sort through past memories, treats patients as if they all have the same psychological root cause of illness, claiming to have a magical miracle technique, utilizing a checklist to find out if the patient suffers from an illness that the psychotherapist specializes in, and finally, demanding that the patient accept certain religious, metaphysical or pseudoscientific beliefs in order to continue psychotherapy[1]. The book was positively reviewed by Dr. Philip Zimbardo[2].
[edit] Table of contents
- What's Wrong with this Picture?
- Back to the Beginning: Regression, Reparenting, and Rebirthing
- Backwards and Forwards: Past-Life/Future-Life Therapy
- They've Got You Coming and Going: Entities Therapists and the Channeling Connection
- You Were Abducted by ETs--That's What the Matter Is
- Cry, Laugh, Attack, Scream--Cathart Your Brains Out
- Therapeutic Seductions--or Sexual Hanky-Panky
- Alphabet Soup for the Mind and Soul: NLP, FC, NOT, EMDR
- How Did This Happen? And What Can You Do?[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Review, Crazy Therapies, May 29, 1997, Robert Carroll.
- ^ Behavioral Interventions, April 2001, [1]
- ^ Publisher, Jossey-Bass, website, Table of Contents, 2006
[edit] External links
- longer book review, skepdic.com
- Excerpted segment - The Therapeutic Relationship, ICSA
- The Etiology of a Social Epidemic, book cited, September 2004
- EMDR and Mesmerism: A Comparative Historical Analysis, book cited in 1999 Harvard University journal article
