Richard Ofshe

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Richard Ofshe (* 1941 ) is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and is considered a "sect expert".

Life

Ofshe holds a BA in Psychology and a BA in Sociology from Queens College, New York, and a PhD in Sociology (specializing in social psychology ) from Stanford University .

In 1967 Ofshe became Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1971 and Professor in 1982.

Paul Ingram

Ofshe was brought in by the prosecutor to deliver his expert judgment on the Paul Ingram case. He concluded that Paul Ingram had not committed the crimes he had confessed. Ingram, in his opinion, was the victim of false memories . Ofshe published a journal article about the phenomenon, but it was criticized.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham: "The Therapy Memory - About the dubious attempt to prove sexual abuse years later". 1995. Bastei Lübbe; Pp. 372-431
  2. ^ Richard Ofshe (July 1992). "Inadvertent hypnosis during interrogation: false confession due to dissociative state; mis-identified multiple personality and the Satanic cult hypothesis". Int J Clin Exp Hypn 40 (3): 125-56. PMID 1399152
  3. ↑ Olio, K; Cornell W (1998). "The Facade of Scientific Documentation: A Case Study of Richard Ofshe's Analysis of the Paul Ingram Case". Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 4 (4): 1182-1197
personal data
SURNAME Ofshe, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cult expert
DATE OF BIRTH 1941