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Article: Under fire, therapy faces a backlash. (efforts to regulate abuses by psychotherapists who use unproven treatments and exploit patient resources) (Cover Story)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 29, 1994
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Pretty soon, shrink-bashing is going to replace lawyer-bashing as the nation's favorite pastime," predicts psychologist Terence Campbell. "And the shrinks are going to deserve every bit of it."
That prediction is particularly surprising since Campbell, author of the forthcoming book Beware the Talking Cure: Psychotherapy May Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health, is himself a psychotherapist in private practice. But Campbell is one of a growing number of professional therapists who are starting to raise hard questions about not only the way therapy is practiced, but its entire theoretical foundation as well. These insider critics say that it's time for their ...