1. Loren Pankratz testified nationally on cases of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, often defending mothers accused of harming their children.
16 Facts About Loren Pankratz
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Loren Pankratz has written and lectured on a wide variety of unusual topics such as dancing manias, spiritualism, Greek oracles, ghosts, plagues, historical enigmas, mesmerism, moral panics, con-games, self-deception, faith healing, self-surgery, miracles, ethical blunders, quackery, and renaissance science.
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Loren Pankratz has published magic history, magic tricks, and mentalism effects in magazines.
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Loren Pankratz is a Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
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Loren Pankratz was a psychologist at the Portland VA Medical Center for 24 years.
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Loren Pankratz was responsible for psychiatry admissions, which gave him experience with emergency room physicians and procedures where he became aware of what he described in Summering in Oregon as false information that patients presented to clinicians.
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In 1975, Loren Pankratz became consultation psychologist for medical and surgical services where he remained until his early retirement in 1995.
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Loren Pankratz was appointed professor in the psychiatry department at Oregon Health Sciences University in 1989.
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Loren Pankratz said that many aspiring authors did not check outside facts, and patients told therapists what they wanted to hear.
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In 1993, Loren Pankratz was appointed to the scientific and professional advisory board of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation.
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Loren Pankratz has written about the lack of documented evidence for repressed memory and the resistance in acknowledging this professional blunder.
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Loren Pankratz concluded that "mothers who present the problems of their children in ways perceived as unusual or problematic have become entangled in legal battles that should have been resolved clinically".
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Loren Pankratz published Patients Who Deceive in 1998 which is part of the Charles Thomas Behavioral Science and Law series.
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Reviewer Phillip Resnick wrote that Loren Pankratz clearly explains the difference between a malingerer and a person with factitious disorder who wants to be sick.
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Loren Pankratz described forced-choice testing as a strategy for the assessment of malingering related to any sensory deficit.
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Loren Pankratz later expanded forced-choice testing to assess malingering on neuropsychological assessment.