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Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria

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UPC:
9780520205833
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1996-09-24
Author:
Richard Ofshe;Ethan Watters
Language:
english
Edition:
1st Printing
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In the last decade, reports of incest have exploded into the national consciousness. Magazines, talk shows, and mass market paperbacks have taken on the subject as many Americans, primarily women, have come forward with graphic memories of childhood abuse. Making Monsters examines the methods of therapists who treat patients for depression by working to draw out memories or, with the use of hypnosis, to encourage fantasies of childhood abuse the patients are told they have repressed. Since this therapy may leave the patient more depressed and alienated than before, questions are appropriately raised here about the ethics and efficacy of such treatment.