Pseudoscience and Cyberspace

I am astonished at the amount of pseudoscience in clinical psychology that is being proliferated on the Internet! Wacky therapies and theories have always been around but now with the availability of this new medium views are able to be disseminated at light speed and for very little money. I'm all for freedom and speech and I enjoy new ideas as much as the next guy. What I don't like are those with dubious qualifications who are getting rich douping the desperate. Everyone and his brother has a new revolutionary trade marked therapy and will teach it to you through books and tapes for hundreds of dollars. Alphabet soup therapiess are amusing and confusing: EMDR, TFT, TIR, EFT, BSFF, CISD, TAB,...These people invariably make miraculous claims with no support. Unfortunately, no one is really doing anything about it. What does everyone think? Any suggestions as to what we could do about it? Good treatments are waiting for people but the public doesn't know about them.

Brian G.

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Re: Pseudoscience and Cyberspace, by John, 2/7/00 Re: Pseudoscience and Cyberspace, by Brian G., 2/7/00 Re: Pseudoscience and Cyberspace, by John, 2/8/00 Re: Pseudoscience and Cyberspace, by Brian G., 2/8/00 Re: Pseudoscience and Cyberspace, by John, 2/9/00 Hmmm, sounds like what the psychotherapy industry has been doing for 100 yrs. What the difference?, by , 3/14/00

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