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  • Psychology Gone Wrong:

    The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy

    Psychology Gone Wrong: The Dark Sides of Science and Therapy explores the dark sides of psychology, the science that penetrates almost every area of our lives. It must be read by everyone who has an interest in psychology, by all those who are studying or intend to study psychology, and by present and potential clients of psychotherapists. This book will tell you which parts of psychology are ... Read more

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  • Recipe for a 21st-Century Children's Crusade

    Essays on Culture, Science, and Psychology

    Guidance for the modern perplexed. In this selection of critical and provocative essays, the author examines many of our popular beliefs about culture, science, psychology and psychotherapy. It serves as an antidote to the mixture of misinformation, intellectual pabulum, and misguided “common sense” that so often masquerades for wisdom in these turbulent times.This highly accessible book is a ... Read more

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  • Fads, Fakes, and Frauds

    Exploding Myths in Culture, Science and Psychology

    This book is a collection of skeptical social essays in which the author reveals that much of our popular beliefs, psychology and science are defective, because, although we live in the 21st century, our approach to them is deeply rooted in our culture, a ... Read more

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  • Shaping Psychology

    Perspectives on Legacy, Controversy and the Future of the Field

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Shaping Psychology is a unique collection of in-depth conversations with a selection of the most influential psychologists working today, conducted at the end of a decade that shook psychological science. They provide insights into the controversies at the heart of contemporary psychology, revealing a clash of visions of what psychological science is all about and what its future holds. They are ... Read more

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  • Psychology Led Astray:

    Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy

    This book shows how scientific and psychotherapeutic practices change into worthless rituals called by the famous physicist, Richard Feynman, "cargo cult." It is a must-read for everybody who is interested in psychology, who is studying or intends to study it, but also for present and potential clients of psychotherapists and parents of mentally-disabled children. Readers will learn which parts of ... Read more

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  • Not Born Yesterday

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  • Brainwashing

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  • Bipolar Expeditions

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  • The Self Illusion

    How the Social Brain Creates Identity

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  • Psychology for the Curious, second edition

    This edition delivers the highlights of a typical Introduction to Psychology college course in about 280 pages, providing the reader with links to psychology-related Websites and additional readings in the fields of scientific methodology, sensation and perception, motivation and emotion, cognition, the brain and its relation to behavior, learning and memory, consciousness, personality, ... Read more

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