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14-September-2008 12:50:29 - Crazy Therapies book Redirected from Crazy Therapies Crazy Therapies Hardcover ion Crazy Therapies Author Margaret Singer Janja Lalich Country United States Language English Subjects psychology Genres nonfiction psychology Publisher Jossey-Bass Publication date 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. The work explores a myriad of wildly controversial claims often made in the psychotherapeutic industry. Contents 1 Advice for psychotherapy patients 2 Reception 3 References 4 External links 5 See also 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. Specific therapies include those which espouse beliefs in possession by spirit entities, past-life regression, alien abduction, primal screaming and other unverified cathartic therapies, reparenting, rebirthing, neurolinguistic programming NLP, facilitated communication FC, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing EMDR, Neural Organization Technique NOT and a host of other unscientific notions. 1. The above crazy therapies are also included in Singer's and Lalich's book Cults in our Midst. According to Margaret Singer and Janja Lalich 1997:167 Crazy therapies are promoted using several techniques. One is to start a certification program soon after conjuring up a new procedure and another is to seduce customers with rash promises and endorsements from acolytes and sycophants. Singer and Lalich 1997:195 advise that if your therapist is saying I don't understand it but it sure does work you're possibly in for trouble. Or if he's answering your questions with a lot of jargon you don't understand, insist on straightforward explanations. Or if he's telling you that its tried and true, do some independent research and find out what the critics are saying. In many cases such fad therapies are promoted by people who are 1 imposing an agenda that may not fit your needs and 2 abandoning testing and science. Well meaning as they may be, remember, its your emotions and your pocketbook that are being played with.2 Reception The book was reviewed by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who wrote in Behavioral Intentions that the book revealed situations in which therapists can become persuasive agents of destructive influence.3. Carroll stated that the book describes ..surreal pseudoscience at its worst.1 He added that Singer and Lalich had helped to expose ..some of the worst psychotherapy has to offer.1 According to Norcross et al. 2006 the burgeoning evidence based practice movement in mental health attempts to identity, implement, and disseminate treatments that have been proven demonstrably effective according to the empirical evidence. Crazy Therapies is one of a few books by evidence based practitioners that has exposed the pseudoscience and quackery within the psychotherapy field4. The stance is one of scientific skepticism, and examines how unvalidated treatment have. It is a difficult task to identify what works, perhaps it is more useful to identify what does not work. A poll was conducted of experts opinions on a range of treatments they rated them from not at all discred to certainly discred. Examples of rated as almost certainly discred psychotherapies were also included in Crazy therapies such as angel therapy, the use of pyramid structures, orgone therapy, and crystal healing.4 References ^ a b c Review, Crazy Therapies, May 29, 1997, Robert Carroll. ^ Singer, Margaret Janja Lalich 1997. Crazy Therapies: What Are They? Do They Work?. Jossey Bass, p167-195. ISBN 0787902780. ^ Zimbardo, Philip, Behavioral Interventions, April 2001, 1 ^ a b Norcross, JC, Garofalo.A, Koocher.G. 2006 Discred Psychological Treatments and Tests; A Delphi Poll. Professional Psychology; Research and Practice. vol37. No 5. 515-522 doi:10.1037/0735-7028.37.5.515 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 See also attack therapy Cults in Our Midst Robert Jay Lifton Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Crazy_Therapies_book Categories: 1996 books | Psychology books Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page This page was last modified on 23 May 2008, at 21:09
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