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Book Review: House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth

✍ Scribed by Brian Bornstein

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 169 KB
Volume: 10
Category: Article
ISSN: 0888-4080
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199604)10:2<184::aid-acp381>3.0.co;2-f

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✦ Synopsis

Eyewitness Expert Testimony is deliberately concise and synoptic but could have done with more careful editing. Material is repeated (even down to anecdotes) in different chapters, references in the text are missing from the bibliography (including two of mine!) and he will not endear himself to his peers by misspelling their names

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