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Smoke And Mirrors Hardcover – August 21, 1998
- Print length338 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDa Capo Lifelong Books
- Publication dateAugust 21, 1998
- Dimensions6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-100306459841
- ISBN-13978-0306459849
- Lexile measure1340L
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- Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books; First Edition (August 21, 1998)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 338 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0306459841
- ISBN-13 : 978-0306459849
- Lexile measure : 1340L
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,504,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,377 in Social Sciences Research
- #21,595 in Medical General Psychology
- #100,400 in Psychology & Counseling
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Campbell would like nothing more than for this to change. He outlines his own method for interviewing children, and it is obvious that his technique would elicit far cleaner information than the usual methods.
Also suspect are claims of past abuse suffered as children, suddenly remembered by adults who claim to have "repressed" it.
That false memories can be created, he demonstrates by citing several objective studies, and I found them quite convincing. He further proves from objective studies that traumatic events are rarely forgotten. What's more, most of the case studies of "recovered memory" patients documented patients who had sought counseling for something other than lost time. In addition, many false memory patients recanted.
This is a much needed book. When people like Raymond Buckey spend five years in jail during a travesty of a trial, at the end of which he is acquitted, someone needs to stand up and cry "Foul!" I applaud Dr. Campbell for doing so.
Campbell speaks with authority since it was his profession, although not him personally, that was a central part of the insanity. If the therapists had read the studies from their own journals they would have known that the sensational "recovered memories"of sexual abuse could only be highly suspect. One weakness of the book is Campbell's understandable reluctance to fully criticize these clinical psychologists. The truth is, not just some, but a significant portion of abuse counselors proved to be incompetent, mercenary and under educated. The harm done to patients and their families and friends by the worst of the therapists exceeds in some respects the harm done through the use of electric shock therapy and frontal lobotomies by witch doctors of a previous era.
