Psychotherapy's progress did not come without much confusion and excess, and even cruelty--lobotomies, excessive use of electroshock therapy, and
charlatanry. A 1970s study by the California State Psychological Association found that more than five percent of male psychologists had had sex with female patients, some claiming that intercourse was a bona fide therapeutic technique.
of Quebec, Canada) provides an introduction to critical thinking necessary for avoiding
charlatanry and for being a good citizen.
More so than Shakespeare, and closely following the Venetian travel accounts of Thomas Coryate and others, Jonson understands the structural connections between the new year-round professional theatre and mercenary
charlatanry that have recently been explored by scholars such as Roberto Tessari and Kenneth and Laura Richards.
Laing's "diagnosis" was classic psychiatric gobbledygook, precisely the kind of
charlatanry he pretended to oppose.
This represents from his perspective the triumph of artistic taste over intellectual
charlatanry. In painters such as Thomas Hope, Eugene Delacroix, Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, and John Frederick Lewis; in painters who wrote about the Orient including Leon Belly, Alfred Dhodencq, and Gustave Guillaumet; in Charles Cordier's sculpture; in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Magic Flute; and even in the writings of Rudyard Kipling, Ibn Warraq finds a powerful determination to convey the color, texture, and, most of all, the humanity of the men and women of the East.
Lourdes was a boon to the mass press, France's new "ultimate public arbiter of truth," which trained accusations of fraud and
charlatanry on the one side against charges of impiety and shabby atheism on the other to sell a sensationalized product to a nation keenly interested in the competition of absolute truth claims at the fin-de-siecle (p.
(32) It is questionable, however, whether the incompetence of antitrust juries and the
charlatanry of some economic experts has as profound an influence as other adjudicatory design features do in antitrust cases.
First, allowing health claims based only on traditional use is an invitation for
charlatanry. Consumers rely on health claims when purchasing NHPs, and leaving them unregulated will result in economic exploitation.
It played a big part in exposing intellectual and academic corruption in general--for example the
charlatanry and incompetence of the Australian Left's hero-historian, the Lenin Jubilee Medalist Manning Clark.
"What I would rather not do, frankly, is go into a lot of
charlatanry about that.