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From Publishers WeeklyThis is the most thoroughgoing and powerful critique to date of the use of recovered memories in psychotherapy. Many retrieved memories of childhood sexual abuse, the authors argue, are fabrications generated in a coercive, highly charged atmosphere using questionable therapeutic techniques such as hypnosis, dream analysis, artwork and the constant revisiting and rewriting of vague early memories. Ofshe, a social psychology professor at UC Berkeley and a Pulitzer-winning reporter, and freelance writer Watters extend their analysis to include alleged sufferers of multiple-personality disorder and people who claim to have been abused or tortured by satanic cults that engage in sacrificial murder and rape. The authors name names, attacking therapists, experts and writers, and they cover such well-publicized cases involving recovered memories as the 1990 San Francisco murder trial that convicted George Franklin on the basis of his daughter Eileen Lipsker's accusation that he had killed her childhood friend Susan Nasson 20 years earlier. This report is certain to escalate a heated public debate. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Steven Rose, Washington Post Book World"The descriptions [the] authors give of the 'therapeutic' practices by which memories are recovered are a frightening indictment of at least some members of the burgeoning therapy industry, of its heads-I-win and tails-you- lose approach to moral rectitude, and of its capacities for self- delusion." 
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- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; Reprint edition
(September 1, 1996)
- ISBN:
0520205839
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
 False Therapy, August 16, 2004
I highly recommend this book as there can never be too many books on this topic to get the word out.
I have first hand experience on this subject. I was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, which had to do with marital problems. They were akin to the movie - The War of Roses, and I was just barely surviving. I went to a clinical psychologist for about 8 sessions. After about the 6th session, I noticed that she kept digging and digging for something specific, when nothing was there.
Out of the blue, she told me about a lady who had repressed her memory and that her father had raped her years ago. Personally, my Dad was the best and I could not understand why she was bringing this up.
Realizing that I was getting nowhere fast, I finally asked her if perhaps she could recommend a book. A broad, smile overcame her in which she was only too happy to recommend one. Judith Herman - Trauma and Recovery. I could barely skim through the feminist garbage but managed to skim and realized right away what my psychologist was up to. I even went to 2 more sessions to confirm my belief. She not only didn't address my problems, which was bad enough in itself, but was trying to allow me to fabricate a victim.
You have no idea how it is to be ill, asking for help, borderline suicidal and to have to go through this added torture. It would be like going to a physician 8 times for a cancer lump and the doctor relentlessly suggesting it's due to somtbody in your life, but you have to come up with a name.
My heart and prayers go out to women or anyone else in deep pain and having these doctors use these devious methods.
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2 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
 Pop psychology or reality?, December 12, 2003
Reviewer: A reader
After reading the pros and cons of various other readers, I decided to read this myself to see the debate first hand. First and foremost, forgetting things, even extremely tramatic things, happens all of the time. Amnesia is a fact of life. People get it. This is a recognized psychological condition and some of the time it is without physical trama. Maybe a lot of the time. But, you do not need to be hit on the head to block out or forget things which happen. As a member of the human race, I would not be sane if "time didn't heal all wounds". I remember crying for months when my grandmother died when I was 12. I was devastated. My mother died 8 months ago and if I could not separate from the pain of that, I would be on the street because I could not work and would have been evicted long ago. The point is, what the author is trying to argue is that this is all false memories and none of this could happen to anyone. Conspiricy thoeries are arguments that they HAVE to be fake because it is not possible for any of the stories to be true. And I suppose we all believe that the Kennedy assination was the work of a lone gunman? It is physically impossible to conclude that the couple of bullets from the window of that book depository could have done all of the damage and killed Kennedy although this is the story most believe. I have been reading the arguments of proponents of "false memory syndrome" for years and, as another points out, if it is real, why is it not recognized by the psychiatric community? Just like it HAD to be Lee Harvey Oswald who killed Kennedy with no help, there HAS to be a false memory syndrome. Both therories are not supported by much fact. If you can have tramatic amnesia, you can forget abuse in order to go on with life. On last comment, I had a number of friends, years ago, who had these sorts of memories. None of them wanted them to be true, none of them asked for it and, from everything they told me, none of their therapists employed the techniques questioned by the author but had recovered memories. I suppose they are all wrong to make the author right.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Unfortunately a book that's very much needed, October 26, 2001
"Making Monsters" is a book about a controversial subject - recovered memories. This was a favorite subject for psychoanalysts in the 80's, during the wave of "Satanic ritual abuse" crimes that were reported. That none of these alleged crimes were ever proven mattered little to those who believed in this new theory - many of them appearing on numerous talkshows, or writing trash books like "Michelle Remembers."I believe there are a lot more people who have been victimized and traumatized by attention-hungry psychotherapists than by Satanic cultists. Like I said in the title of my review, this book is unfortunately very much needed. If this book has the impact on society it deserves, it will make itself obsolete.
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