A Special Series of Interviews: Recovered Memory and Other Questionable Practices An Introduction to this topic First person stories: Dr. Mike Janet Our experts comment: Dr. Brandon Gaudiano Dr. Richard J. McNally Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus Michael Freeny, MSW Dr. Scott Lilienfeld Our expert guests: Brandon Gaudiano received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Drexel University in Philadelphia. He currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School bms.brown.edu/DPHB/. Dr. Gaudiano’s research, which is conducted through the Butler Hospital Psychosocial Research Program www.butler.org/, focuses on the development and evaluation of empirically supported psychotherapies. He also has several written articles on the topic of pseudoscience in clinical psychology, including a recent op-ed piece http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,575040926,00.html for the Los Angeles Times on questionable practices in mental health. A founding member of the Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health www.csmmh.org/, Dr. Gaudiano has served on the editorial board of the journal, The Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice www.srmhp.org/ since 2001. He recently was appointed as the “Media Watch” Section Editor for that journal. As a resource for consumers, he has created a web site that provides information on a controversial approach called Thought Field Therapy www.geocities.com/pseudoscience_2000. Dr. Richard J. McNally joined the Harvard faculty as Associate Professor in 1991, and was promoted to Professor in 1995. He served on the specific phobia and posttraumatic stress disorder committees of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV Task Force and on the National Institute of Mental Health's consensus panels for the assessment of panic disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. His research interests include the application of cognitive psychology methods to elucidate information-processing abnormalities in anxiety disorders, especially panic disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the study of memory in people reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse. You can find out more about Dr. McNally at wjh.harvard.edu/psych/epp.html#McNally. Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus is the author of many articles on recovered memory and related subjects as well as the books: Eyewitness Testimony, The Myth of Repressed Memory : False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse, Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial, the last two with Katherine Ketcham. You can find out more about Dr. Loftus at faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/. Dr. Scott Lilienfeld has been a guest on the Labyrinth on the subject of the "Rorschach Test". Dr. Lilienfeld is President of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP). Michael Freeny, MSW has been a guest on the Labrynith on the subjects of "How Private are our Records?" and "Domestic Violence". He is the author of Terminal Consent. You can find out more about Michael Freeny at www.clinicalCEU.com

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