Friday, January 17, 2020

False advertising from Hugendubel 31

In this commercial marketing of a Chuck Spezzano book, Hugendubel says the author has a Ph.D. in "Clinical Psychology" and has worked as a "psychologist."

https://www.hugendubel.de/de/ebook/chuck_spezzano-zwei_herzen_im_einklang-18802560-produkt-details.html
[Update Jan. 17, 2020: Dead link]

Yet again we must point out this is false advertising.

Spezzano's 1977 Ph.D. was apparently in something exotic called "Professional Psychology." It was not accredited by the APA, which means his diploma bypassed any sort of national standard. Even in Germany this should disqualify him from being called a "psychologist."

In addition, Spezzano was fined by the State of Hawaii in 2004 for impersonating a professional. He is not licensed and is not even remotely qualified to practice professional psychology even if he applied. He has NEVER worked as a licensed "psychologist." His credentials have been inflated and falsified for years, starting with his own newspaper advertisements in the 1980s. Here are some links to some primary sources of interest so you can see the evidence:

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/charles-lee-spezzano-ph-d-in_28.html

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/09/state-of-hawaii-v-charles-l-spezzano.html

http://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/10/state-of-hawaii-requirements-and.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2017/10/honolulu-advertising-clips-from-1980s.html

https://psychologyofvision.blogspot.com/2015/12/marquis-whos-who-breaththrough-seminars.html






1 comment:

Year of the Cat said...

It might seem crazy to highlight each and every lie in each and every marketing ad for Spezzano, but it has been paying off. Little by little we are seeing vendors and promoters revising their copy since we began this consumer information campaign a couple months ago.

One vendor in Germany who had marketed Spezzano with false credentials for years and did nothing when we merely had one post pointing this out, recently took action when we highlighted each individual ad. Not only did they erase the false credentials, they withdrew all of Chuck's titles from their catalog!

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