> I am trying to find a copy of a 1993 PBS program titled, "Prisoners
> of Science." PBS is not distributing it anymore and Video Finders
> does not have it on its list. The video is about the controversial
> use of facilitated communication with autistic children.
You can find a copy for purchase at:
http://www.specialneeds.com/store/product.asp?subject_id=7&sku=9977
> Actually what I need is any good article or video that shows the
> controversy of a particular form of psychotherapy. I want this to
> encourage social psychology students to think critically about how
> illusory correlation, belief perseverance, and overconfidence can
> enter in to clinical diagnosis.
FACILITATED COMMUNICATION: MENTAL MIRACLE OR SLEIGHT OF HAND? by Gina
Green
Skeptic vol. 2, no. 3, 1994, pp. 68-76.
The article is reproduced on the web at
http://www.skeptic.com/02.3.green-fc.html
Or
"A History of Facilitated Communication: Science, Pseudoscience, and
Antiscience: Science Working Group on Facilitated Communication" by
Jacobson, Mulick, and Schwartz
American Psychologist 1995, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 750-765
This article is also reproduced on the web at
http://www.apa.org/journals/jacobson.html
If neither of these articles work for you, let me know, and I'll see
what else I can dig up.
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New Mexico State Univ - Alamogordo Fax: (505) 439-3802
Alamogordo, NM 88310 http://alamo.nmsu.edu/~frantz
