دانلود کتاب Abused by Therapy. How Searching for Childhood Trauma Can Damage Adult Lives

Abused by Therapy debunks a modern myth: that there are certain symptoms in adults that are almost always caused by childhood trauma. Therapists believing this will search for the hidden cause behind their clients' current symptoms and they will find it – but what exactly are they finding? People undergoing therapy do recover memories of horrifying trauma. Is this evidence of previously unsuspected abuse or does it reflect the therapists' obsessions? This book shows how recovered memory therapy can lead people to rewrite their past histories, so that once loved parents are seen as abusers who must be rejected. Yet it can often be shown that these new beliefs are unfounded. Graphic descriptions are provided of the way this powerful therapy can damage the lives of all concerned: the clients, their accused families and the therapists who become trapped into upholding increasingly implausible and distressing beliefs. An international campaign is now promoting the treatment of...