FROM: SHAMBLOG
Exposing the scams, shams, and shames of modern life.
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
The center of my concerns.
" .... however. During my discussion of Dr. Laura Schlessinger in SHAM***, I noted that formal mental-health organizations frown on the misleading use of doctorates and other credentials, especially those unrelated to mental health. In Schlessinger's case, for example, therapists tend to resent the fact that she took the one doctorate she does have (in physiology) and used it to add a patina of credibility to her career in pop psychology. As I also note in SHAM, fully three-quarters of confessed Dr. Laura junkies told The Washington Post that they just naturally assumed she was "a psychologist, psychiatrist or therapist." That, to me, is a problem. It's also a serious breach of professional ethics, when the central figure in the confusion not only fails to correct the false impression, but actually seeks to maximize profits from it."
UPDATE: Schessinger's new blog entry 4/5/07. Leslie Bennetts new book is coming out without the Fake Dr.Stamp of Approval. Start spin control now.
Just make things up
