Showing posts with label False advertising from Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH 4. Show all posts
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Friday, February 28, 2020

False advertising from Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH 4


In this commercial marketing for a book by Chuck Spezzano, Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH makes the claim that Chuck Spezzano is a "psychologist," but not just any run of the mill "psychologist"-- in the book review Spezzano is called "an internationally renowned psychologist."

https://www.randomhouse.de/Paperback/Die-Spiegel-deiner-Seele/Chuck-Spezzano/Integral/e421277.rhd
[Update Feb. 28, 2020: Although the publisher's quote that Spezzano is "an internationally renowned psychologist" remains, the rest of the bogus credentials have been removed]

And 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