“A
damning indictment of the psychologizing –
and undermining – of the American legal
system. With righteous wrath and devastating
wit, this sweeping critique should stir national
debate.” Read
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-- Publishers Weekly
"No question
psychology professor Margaret Hagen has bitten
the hand that feeds her. Not with a nip, mind
you, but a full-throttle chomp... Hagen, who
has taught psychology at Boston University since
the mid-1970s, has published a wide-ranging,
no-holds-barred screed against psychiatrists,
psychologists and counselors who testify as
'experts' in criminal and civil courts and child
custody cases. Read
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-- Boston Herald
“Ms.
Hagen [argues] that except in extremely limited
circumstances, the very notion of 'expert psychological
opinion' is a farce An experimental psychologist
herself, she believes that her profession is
qualified only to measure very limited things
about the brain -- perception, language, learning,
cognition and memory. The rest she dismisses
as 'witch doctoring.'”
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-- The Baltimore Sun
“Margaret A. Hagen, who teaches at Boston
University, picks many bones with the specialists…
Hagen, who holds a doctorate in developmental
psychology, contends that the psychological
helping professions have sold out for money
by giving false or worthless testimony in court.”
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-- The Boston Globe
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