{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.032175032175032175, 'fraction_numerical': 0.005791505791505791, 'mean_word_length': 5.122047244094488, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
A Review of Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

SCIENCE AND PSEUDOSCIENCE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven J. Lynn, and Jeffrey M. Lohr. Guilford Press, 2003, 474 pp. , by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven J. Lynn, and Jeffrey M. Lohr The chapters in this book vary from excellent to substandard. Often, the analysis and discussion are accurate, instructive and comprehensive: for instance, in chapters devoted to the methodology of psychotherapy outcome studies; assessment techniques; herbal remedies and antidepressant medications; and treatments for alcoholism, autism and attention deficit disorder. All of these chapters involve analysis of data and methodology. The reviews in these chapters are balanced and free of overt bias. Four chapters are of particular relevance to readers of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation: ones on dissociative identity disorder (DID), New Age therapies, memory recovery techniques and treatments for trauma-related stress disorders. The chapter on New Age therapies by Margaret Singer and Abraham Nievod provides a cartoon account of DID. Indeed, the chapter is an excellent example of the pseudoscience analyzed in the rest of the book. The chapter on New Age therapies includes 51 references to authors such as Ofshe, Loftus, Pendergrast, Piper, McHugh, Barden, Acocella, Crewes and Dawes but not a single reference from the DID literature. No data, research or methodology are discussed and the authors operate purely at an anecdotal and ideological level. For example, they describe