Part 1. Introduction1. Propaganda in the Helping Professions: What is it and Why Should You Care?Part 2. Context, Actors, and Scripts2. Introduction to the Players3. Interactions among the Players4. Propaganda Analysis: Different LevelsPart 3. Consequences of Propaganda5. A Rogue's Gallery of Harms Related to Propaganda in the Helping Professions6. The Medicalization of LifePart 4. How They Reel Us In7. Obscure Different Views of Knowledge and How to Get It8. Appeal to Popular Grand Narratives and Metaphors9. Disguise Advertisements as Professional Literature10. Propagandistic Use of Language and Social Psychological Persuasion Strategies11. Appeal to Our Psychological VulnerabilitiesPart 5. What You Can Do12. Enhance Your Argument Analysis Skills13. Increase Your Skill in Spotting Fallacies14. Increase Your Skill in Searching for Answers for YourselfNotesReferencesIndex
Eileen Gambrill, PhD, is Hutto Patterson Professor of Child and Family Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
"I know of no other work that so masterfully reviews propaganda and
deceptive scholarship in all its guises and illustrates how it
characterizes so much of what passes as 'help, ' 'therapy, ' or
'science' in the helping professions. In addition, the final
chapters expand the analysis into a magnificent primer on
identifying deception and doublespeak in the literature. As
commercial and ideological conflicts of interest in the helping
enterprise have largely blurred the boundary between science and
marketing, this book should be required reading for all helpers and
would-be helpers, their clients, and those who aspire to be
critical thinkers." -- David Cohen, PhD, Florida International
University
"I would have to describe Eileen Gambrill as 'the Rachel Carson of
health and public policy.' This is a wonderful book, written with
an engaging literary style from a liberal perspective, but as
hardnosed as can be when dealing with questions of evidence, on the
tendency of vested interests to distract us for their own
essentially undemocratic ends. The book is testimony to the fact
that soft-heartedness about the human condition need not imply
soft-headedness when making evidence-influenced plans to try to
assist." -- Brian Sheldon, PhD, University of Exeter
"I can think of no greater accolade than to state how much this
book stirred me to think, and of how much I learned from reading
it. This is a brilliant book. Every practitioner in the human
services and, more importantly, every literate client, should read
it. It provides an effective antidote to the pervasive propaganda
to be found relating to the causes of psychosocial and biologically
based disorders, their assessment, and treatment. A wonderful
addition to the literature on scientific skepticism." -- Bruce A.
Thyer, PhD, Florida State University"Propaganda in the Helping
Professions is a book that needed to be written and that should be
mandatory reading for all consumers. We are drowning in claims
and
misinformation--from politicians, the media, and religious and
business leaders. If ever
there was time when we needed a lifesaver of truth in this stormy
sea of lies, it is now.
Eileen Gambrill has done her part to rectify this sad situation."
-- Donald G. Dutton, PsycCRITIQUES
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