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Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology
Industry Is Doing to People
by Tana Dineen

Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry Is Doing to People by Tana Dineen

Reviews
Midwest Book Review
Psychology is an influential and accepted force in our culture. It has become a kind of industry that generates a great deal of money for its practitioners - sometimes at the expense of the patient. Manufacturing Victims: What The Psychology Industry Is Doing To People describes the various types of psychological techniques and assumptions that create and cater to "victims", often to the damage of the patient, the division of families, the distortion of justice, the destruction of businesses, and the weakening of the nation. Individual chapters address:

Victim Making
Fabricated Victims
The Growth of the Psychology Industry
Selling Psychology as Science
The Business of Psychology
The Technology of Victim Making
Talking Back Our Private Lives

Manufacturing Victims is a serious and long needed assessment of what is happening with increasing frequency in this lucrative and widespread area of mental health services.

The publisher, Robert Davies Publishing: rdppub@netcom.ca, January 8, 1998
This gun is not for hire
The Los Angeles Daily Journal called the author a clinician who slams the expert-witness racket, with judges being seduced into allowing dubiously or not properly qualified psychology experts to influence legal decisions and verdicts. The real growth industry, the author went on, is in family law, where judges often decide that everyone in a family needs counseling. We have psychologized everything, and have stopped looking at the evidence.

As reviewed by Dr Laura Schlessinger on Jan 15, 1997
Dr. Laura Schlessinger says of MANUFACTURING VICTIMS (by Dr Tana Dineen, Robert Davies Publishing) 'This is a first. This is the book I think you ought to read. I love it. I am a fan, Dr. Dineen.' . . . "should be required reading for anyone receiving therapy, as well as for those who earn their living in this field"

Approximate transcript of THE DR LAURA SHOW, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, January 15, 1997

"Hi, I'm Doctor Laura Schlessinger, I'm going to recommend a book in a moment. This is a first....This is the book I think you ought to read. It's called Manufacturing Victims: What the Psychology Industry is Doing to People by a psychologist, Tana Dineen, and it just came out; came out in Canada so you may have to work at this if you are in the United States. I want to read part of the review. I love this. I must say I guess there is some narcissism in here, it reflects that which I have been saying, of course. I like it. Alright; Tana Dineen is a psychologist with more than two decades of experience, is alarmed by the trend in psychotherapy. In her book Manufacturing Victims she is embarrassed to be associated with her profession. (I'm going to jump.) The hucksters substitute personal belief for scientific fact (no kidding) and have managed to persuade North Americans that there must be some psychological solution to all of life's pains. And that's what I have been saying.

Morals, values, ethics, courage, grit, conscience, character are irrelevant (you're hurting. Okay going right ahead) She said that she demonstrates that psychology is a business (no kidding) that has dramatically expanded its client base by convincing more and more of us that we have been emotionally wounded and now require professional help to recover. While practicing psychologists used to spend the majority of their time treating and studying genuine mental illness, Dineen shows how the business has shifted to ordinary people's 'inner children'.- your inner child. (There is one guy who had made a whole career out of this garbage, and you suck it up, friends.) Functioning adult clients are being encouraged to dwell on their weaknesses rather than their strengths (That's true!) and the end result isn't a healthier, more capable populace, but an increasingly insecure one obsessed with imperfection.

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