Psychology gone wrong
Subtitle: the dark sides of science and therapy
Publisher: Brown Walker Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781627345286
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I: Fraudsters in the Temple of Science: Some Sins of Academic Psychology; title: Chapter 1: In Search of the Super Human: Wandering of Eugenics; title: Chapter 2: The Fraud as a Nobleman: From Lies to Academic Glory; title: Chapter 3: Epigones of Sir Cyril Burt: Other Scientific Fraudsters; title: Chapter 4: The Hidden Part of the Iceberg: The Problem of Raw Data and the Scope of Scientific Misconducts; title: Chapter 5: Lying is the First Step to the Gallows – Plagiarism and Other Misconducts in Scientific Publications; title: Chapter 6: Scientific Conspiracy? The Myth of Replication; title: Chapter 7: A Big Jar of Cookies: The Reasons for Current State of Academic Psychology; title: Part II: Conquering Patients’ Souls – Sins of Psychotherapists; title: Chapter 8: Psychoanalysis: Castle Built on Sand; title: Chapter 9: The Myth of Childhood: Foundation of Therapies Exploring the Past; title: Chapter 10: The Nightmare of Recovered Memories; title: Chapter 11: Of the Need for... Prostitution: A Different Perspective on Psychotherapy; title: Chapter 12: Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Effectiveness of Psychotherapy Today; title: Chapter 13: First, Do No Harm; title: Chapter 14: With what can we Replace Psychotherapy?; title: Chapter 15: Ship of Fools: The Reasons for the Present State of Psychotherapy; title: Part III: Beyond Control: Psychobusiness; title: Chapter 16: Fair of Illusions, Miracles and Hopes; title: Chapter 17: The Art of Hammering Nails or the Theory and Practice of NLP in the Eyes of a Social Psychologist; title: Chapter 18: Hows and Whys of Inventing a New Therapy: A Psychological Sokal Hoax.; title: Chapter 19: From Keeping Silent to Arrogant Hostility: Strategies Employed by Scientists with Regard to Pseudoscience; title: To be continued…