Quack Psychological Therapies

M. Hafer

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1. This involves using little flashing lights to effect a magical cure in practically no time at all.

5. In recent years, several people have been accidentally killed while performing this rite.

10. Many untested dietary __________ even claim that they can cure or alleviate symptoms of mental disorders!

11. To re-experience the trauma of delivery in order to work out internal issues.

13. This is one of the buzz words that should alert you that a therapy is unproven and probably ineffective.

15. This obnoxious celebrity claims to have regressed all the way to the womb during "therapy".

16. Homer Simpson is one of many who claims to have been abducted by a _________; Kang and Kodos strongly deny they were involved.

17. _________ scream was very popular in the 1960s and is a lot of fun--just not very effective.

18. ___________ memories work involved unlocking totally hidden and forgotten memories of past abuse.

19. This man thought that gut-wrenching yelling had a strongly curative power all by itself.

20. Many patients who recovered lost memories recalled being abused by ___________ cults.

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2. His therapy often involved having sexual relations with clients!

3. This "therapy" involves wrapping kids in blankets or mattresses.

4. _______ work involves releasing "memorie" of past abuse by passing hands over a patient rhythmically.

6. This therapy involves curing gay people.

7. Another buzz word that makes it sound like a quack therapy must be effective.

8. Past life ___________ involves taking a person back to previous lives to work out issues that were never resolved.

9. The ___________ effect can explain why sometimes quack therapies SEEM to work when they don't.

12. The primordial cosmic energy (life energy) present in all living things.

14. While very popular in recent years, work involving __________ and spiritual re-allignment is entirely unscientific.

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