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Richard Ofshe is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in "coercive social control; social psychology; influence in police interrogation; influence leading to pseudo-memory in psychotherapy."

He is co-author, with Ethan Watters, of Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria and Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried.

On June 7, 1996, he testified at the pardon hearing for Paul Ingram. In a TV-movie about that case, Forgotten Sins, he was portrayed by William Devane.

External links

Richard Ofshe academic homepage

Academic Interests

Audio of Paul Ingram Pardon Hearing

Forgotten Sins in the Internet Movie Database

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