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Ceci, Stephen J; Bruck, Maggie Jeopardy in the Courtroom, 1995
Ceci, Stephen J; Hembrooke, Helene Expert Witnesses in Child Sexual Abuse Cases, 1998
Crews, Frederick and his critics The Memory Wars, 1995
Campbell, Terence
Smoke and Mirrors, 1998
Devastating effect of false sexual abuse claims
Reviews
From Kirkus Reviews , September 1, 1998
A psychologist castigates his own profession for its role in false sexual
abuse claims that have put innocent people behind bars, ruined families, and
damaged patients in therapy. Campbell, a member of the Professional and
Scientific Advisory Board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, has
previously published portions of the present work in a number of peer-reviewed
journals. Here, he first examines the role of anxious parents, ill-informed health-care
professionals, and overzealous prosecutors in legal cases involving false
allegations of sexual abuse. He describes numerous disturbing cases, some that
have been well publicized and others that have not, to reveal the error-prone
procedures for assessing child abuse and the way in which play therapy for
children can dramatically alter their memories. Next, he looks closely at the
practice of recovered memory therapy, in which therapists persuade adult
clients that their troubles originated in childhood sexual abuse, memories of
which they have repressed. Campbell contends that recovered memory therapists,
who may be doctoral-level psychologists, not just marginally trained
practitioners, are bringing discredit to psychotherapy with their use of the
blame-and-change approach (clients in therapy must blame family members in
order to change themselves) and their persistence in clinging to misinformed
theories about memory and repression. Campbell, who cites studies showing that
therapists rely much more on subjective impressions than on scientific
research, charges that within the American Psychological Association and other
member organizations, political correctness and marketing concerns prevail over
ethical responsibility and accuracy of information. In his final chapter,
Smoke and Mirrors: The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims is an
uncompromising examination of how false allegations originate, gather momentum,
and too often culminate by ripping apart the lives of innocent people. Dr.
Terence Campbell, a nationally recognized authority in the area of forensic
psychology, passionately debates how false allegations of sexual abuse can
occur anywhere to anyone.
Ceci, Stephen J.;
Bruck, Maggie
Jeopardy in the Courtroom, 1995
A scientific analysis of children's testimony
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Synopsis
This comprehensive resource helps the reader evaluate and understand children's
statements in the courtroom. Noting that in many instances testimony is
elicited from children using questionable techniques that may be damaging to
both defendant and accused, Ceci and Bruck describe procedures that will ensure
that interviews and analysis are conducted in a sensitive and professional
manager.
The credibility of children's testimony is a highly debated topic in
Ceci, Stephen J.; Hembrooke, Helene (Editors)
Expert Witnesses in Child Sexual Abuse Cases, 1998
What can and should be said in court
Cognitive Models of Memory, 1997
Studies in cognition series
Recovered Memories and False Memories, 1997
Debates in psychology
Crews, Frederick and his critics
The Memory Wars, 1995
Freud's legacy in dispute
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Amazon.com
This volume collects Frederick Crews's two controversial essays on Freud
from the New York Review of Books, "The Unknown Freud" and "The
Revenge of the Repressed," as well as some of the critical letters
provoked by their original publication in 1993 and 1994. In these essays, Crews
elaborates upon his belief that "the relatively patent and vulgar
pseudoscience of recovered memory rests in appreciable measure on the
respectable and entrenched pseudoscience of psychoanalysis." Recovered
memory therapy, according to his thesis, is a grossly negative practice that,
in turn, has its origins in Freudian assumptions about
psychoanalysis--assumptions that Crews charges were based on fraudulent data
and intellectual bullying. As the reader responses indicate, these ideas were
like a grenade tossed into the center of psychoanalytic culture, made all the
more powerful by Crews's lively prose.
Synopsis
In November of 1993, the New York Review published the first of two
tenaciously argued essays by Frederick Crews, author of Out of My System:
Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. This is Crews' resounding
critique of Freudian theory and the recovered memory movement, with the
spirited exchange of letters it provoked and a new introduction by the author.
Synopsis
The author's critique of Freudian psychoanalyis and the "recovered
memory" movement, first published in 1993 in The New York Review of Books
to a storm of controversy, is presented along with twenty-five responses. IP.
Booknews, Inc. , February 1, 1996
Contains two essays by Frederick Crews attacking Freudian psychoanalysis
and the recovered memory movement, along with a selection of the many
fascinating, scholarly responses to the essays, all of which appeared in The
New York Review of Books in 1993 and 1994.