Making monsters: False memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria Free PDF book

Now the Pulitzer Prizewinning social psychologist Richard Ofshe and Mother Jones writer Ethan Watters demonstrate that these recovered memories can be false, fabricated in the highly charged atmosphere of therapy, usually through questionable techniques such as hypnosis. Ofshe and Watters not only take to task poorly trained therapists and in many states, but no real clinical experience is required to practice they also show how the mental health establishment has actually added to the confusion.Ofshe and Watters trace the problem back to its source Sigmund Freud and illuminate how and why the debate about recovered memories will drive psychology in the future. Making Monsters is groundbreaking science with powerful stories. It comes at a time when parents and friends of recovered memory patients, wrongly accused of violent physical and emotional abuse, are banding together, searching for real answers to difficult questions. Timely and controversial, this book exposes a profound social and psychological crisis and will curb a popular craze that is destroying thousands of families. Its message cannot be ignored.The myths of memory -- Effort after meaning -- Symptoms of pseudoscience -- Creation of the abuse narrative -- Investment in belief -- Life with father -- Hypnosis and the creation of pseudo memories -- Two cases of hypnotic story creation -- Reason and darkness: The strange stories of Satanic abuse -- Multiple personality disorder: The creation of a sickness -- Therapy of a high priestess -- The murder, the witness, and the psychiatrist -- Deaths in the familyAuthor: Ofshe, Richard; Watters, EthanPublication Date:1996