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Navigating the mindfield a guide to separating science from pseudoscience in mental health

Can self-help recordings containing subliminal messages improve your self-esteem or memory? Is hypnotic age-regression therapy a valid way of rediscovering lost childhood memories? Does Thought Field Therapy effectively treat anxiety by manipulating energy fields? A dizzying array of popular psychol...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lilienfeld, Scott O., Ruscio, John, Lynn, Steven J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, NY Prometheus Books 2008
Subjects:
Psychiatry > Popular works
Psychiatric errors
Mental health
Pseudoscience
Alternative medicine > Evaluation
Complementary Therapies
Psychiatry > methods
Malpractice
Psychotherapy > methods
Treatment Outcome
Quackery
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The scientist-practitioner gap and its origins
  • How to distinguish the wheat from the chaff in mental healthcare
  • How to evaluate assessment methods
  • How to evaluate psychiatric diagnoses
  • How to evaluate memory and memory recovery techniques
  • How to evaluate psychotherapy
  • The popularization of popular psychology
  • Solutions and remedies

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