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Old Sep 10, 2016, 11:12 PM
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I found this to be a great list to read that was in the comments to this How to Tell If Your Shrink Sucks (And Then Fire Them)

Shouldn’t I Be Feeling Better By Now? Edited by Yvonne Bates. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Mind Games. Robert A. Baker. Prometheus Books, 1996.

The Psychological Society. Martin L. Gross. Random House, 1978.

House of Cards: Psychology and Psychiatry Built on Myth. Robyn Dawes. Free Press,1996.

Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists: The Common Roots of Psychotherapy and Its Future. E. Fuller Torrey. Emerson Hall Publishers; 1st edition (1972)

"The Bait-and-Switch Tactic in Psychotherapy" by Martin H. Williams, in Psychotherapy, 1985, vol. 22, pp. 110-13.

"Fringe Psychotherapies: The Public at Risk" by Barry L. Beyerstein for The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, circa 2002.

Smoke and Mirrors: The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims. Terence W. Campbell. Da Capo Press, 1998.

Psychotherapy: The Purchase of Friendship. William Schofield. A Spectrum book, 1964 (updated in 1986).

Against Therapy: Emotional Tyranny and the Myth of Psychological Healing. Jeffrey M. Masson. Common Courage Press, 1993 (revised edition, I think the first came out in 1988).

Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People. Tana Dineen. Robert Davies Multimedia Publishing (US),1998.

What Therapists Don’t Talk About and Why: Understanding Taboos that Hurt Us and Our Clients. Pope, Sonne, and Greene. American Psychological Association, 2006.

Therapy’s Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and Exploitation of Today’s Walking Worried. Ofshe and Watters. Scribner, 1999.

Gaslighting, the Double Whammy, Interrogation and Other Methods of Covert Control in Psychotherapy and Analysis. Theodore L. Dorpat. Jason Aronson, 1996.

The Death of Psychotherapy: From Freud to Alien Abductions. Donald A. Eisner. Praeger, 2000.

The Shrinking of America: Myths of Psychological Change. Bernie Zilbergeld. Little, Brown, and Company, 1983.

The Illusion of Psychotherapy. William M. Epstein. Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology. Edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn and Jeffrey M. Mohr. The Guildford Press, 2003.

Demystifying Therapy. Ernesto Spinelli. Constable and Company Ltd, 1994.

Psychotherapy and its Discontents. Edited by Windy Dryden and Colin Feltham. Open University Press, 1992.

Can Psychotherapists Hurt You? Judi Striano. Professional Press, 1988.
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