Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology

"This book offers a rigorous examination of a variety of therapeutic, assessment, and diagnostic techniques in clinical psychology, focusing on practices that are popular and influential but lack a solid grounding in empirical research. Featuring chapters from leading clinical researchers, the text helps professionals and students evaluate the merits of novel and controversial techniques and differentiate between those that can stand up to scientific scrutiny and those that cannot. Reviewed are widely used therapies for alcoholism, infantile autism, and ADHD the use of EMDR in the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder herbal remedies for depression and anxiety suggestive techniques for memory recovery and self-help models. Other topics covered include issues surrounding psychological expert testimony, the uses and abuses of projective assessment techniques, and unanswered questions about dissociative identity disorder. Offering a balanced, constructive review of available research, each accessibly written chapter concludes with a glossary of key terms."--Publisher's information.

Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology: initial thoughts, reflections, and considerations / Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, and Jeffrey M. Lohr -- Understanding why some clinicians use pseudoscientific methods: findings from research on clinical judgment / Howard N. Garb and Patricia Boyle -- Controversial and questionable assessment techniques / John Hunsley, Catherine M. Lee, and James M. Wood -- The science and pseudoscience of expert testimony / Joseph T. McCann, Kelley L. Shindler, and Tammy R. Hammond -- Dissociative identity disorder: multiple personalities, multiple controversies / Scott O. Lilienfeld and Steven Jay Lynn -- Toward a science of psychotherapy research: present states and evaluation / John P. Garske and Timothy Anderson -- New age therapies / Margaret Thaler Singer and Abraham Nievod -- The remembrance of things past: problematic memory recovery techniques in psychotherapy / Steven Jay Lynn, Timothy Lock, Elizabeth Loftus, Elisa Krackow, and Scott O. Lilienfeld -- Novel and controversial treatments for trauma-related stress disorders / Jeffrey M. Lohr, Wayne Hooke, Richard Gist, and David F. Tolin -- Controversial treatments for alcoholism / J…