Pseudoscience in Therapy

Stephen Hupp, Ph.D., is a Licenced Clinical Psychologist and Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA, where he has won the Great Teacher Award and the Champion for Diversity Award. His edited books include Investigating Pop Psychology (2023), Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2019), and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: Components of Evidence-Based Treatments for Youth and Their Parents (2018). His co-authored books include Great Myths of Child Development (2015), Great Myths of Adolescence (2019), and Thinking Critically about Child Development (2020). He has also written a skeptical game book for children called Dr. Huckleberry's True or Malarkey? Superhuman Abilities (2021). Cara L. Santa Maria, MS, MA, is a public communicator of science and Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University, USA. She has won several awards for science and public interest journalism, including three Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards, the Knight Foundation Innovation Give Forward Award, a Golden Mic Award, and an LA Press Club Award. She is co-author of The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe (2018), and she hosts numerous podcasts including The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Fixed that for You, and Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria, which was once featured as a category on Jeopardy!. She was a correspondent for National Geographic's Brain Games and Explorer, as well as Netflix's Bill Nye Saves the World.

''Psychotherapy' offers a spectrum of practices and techniques, some effective and evidence-based, some of dubious value, and some that violate the principle of 'do no harm'. This book is an impressive, comprehensive, and well-written guide to choosing efficacious therapy while avoiding the useless and the bogus. I highly recommend it.' James E. Alcock, York University, Canada

• 1. Thinking critically about therapy Cara L. Santa Maria; 2. Depression R. Trent Codd III; 3. Bipolar spectrum Monica Ramirez Basco and Brittany L. Mason; 4. Anxiety Dean McKay; 5. Obsessions and compulsions Dean McKay; 6. Trauma Gerald M. Rosen, Henry Otgaar, and Harald Merckelbach; 7. Dissociation Steven Jay Lynn, Fiona Sleight, Craig P. Polizzi, Damla Aksen, Lawrence Patihis, Henry Otgaar and Olivier Dodier; 8. Pain Harriet Hall; 9. Eating issues Jamie Loor, Jennifer Battles, Brooke L. Bennett, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, and Danae L. Hudson; 10. Insomnia Colleen E. Carney, Parky H. Lau and Samlau Kutana; 11. Sexual issues Caroline F. Pukall; 12. Substance use and addiction Jonathan N. Stea, Igor Yakovenko, Hyoun S. Kim, and David C. Hodgins; 13. Significant cognitive decline Claudia Drossel and Jacqueline Pachis; 14. Antisocial behavior Devon L. L. Polaschek; 15. Personality Joel Paris; 16. Psychosis and schizophrenia Brandon A. Gaudiano, Katherine Visser and Elizabeth Thompson; 17. Autism spectrum and intellectual disability Jason C. Travers; 18. Inattention and hyperactivity J. Russell Ramsay; 19. Tics Kirsten Bootes, Brianna Wellen, Emily Braley and Michael B Himle; 20. Couples discord Erin F. Alexander and Matthew D. Johnson; Postscript: Scientific skepticism resources Stephen Hupp; Index.