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	False memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A false memory is a memory of an event that did not happen or is a distortion of an event that did occur as determined by externally corroborated facts.
		The memory may be partly accurate, but in fact the child is half remembering fragments of a Thanksgiving party: daddy was carving the turkey and singing loudly, and mommy's expression is because she is shouting at the dog to lie down.
		False memory syndrome (FMS) is the term for the hypothesis describing a state of mind wherein sufferers have a high number of highly vivid but false memories, often of abusive events during their childhood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_memory (1875 words)

	Recovered Memories: False Memory Syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This essay is a brief summary of false memory syndrome, a psychological topic that involves the origin, repression and recovery of suppressed (repressed) memories.
		Given that false memories are a consequence of conscious and non-conscious processes, Maylor theorized that the use of lure words (words that evoke highly associative responses) might intensify false memories.
		Clinical studies that analyzed clinical practice in memory recovery and exploration of the influence of social interaction and its affect on memory record results that show the effect of psychological stress on parts of the brain and the development of false memories.
	www.umm.maine.edu /resources/beharchive/bexstudents/MargaretChavaree/mcbex320.htm (3179 words)

	Hypatia --False Memory Syndrome
		This is the stereotype of the victim of false memory syndrome.
		To the extent that the client's memory fails to match the public record, on the one hand, the content of that memory is suspect; to the extent that her memory does match the public record, on the other hand, the status of her beliefs as memory is suspect.
		A primary difficulty with both sides of the false memory debate, as currently constructed, is the assumption of client passivity and the subsequent failure to hold the client responsible for her beliefs, feelings, or behaviors.
	iupjournals.org /hypatia/hyp12-2.html (19206 words)

	Feminista! v2n10 - False Memory Syndrome: A False Construct
		The false memory syndrome foundaton is a fraud designed to deny a reality that Peter and Pam have spent most of their lives trying to escape.
		False memory syndrome is especially destructive because the person assiduously avoids confrontation with any evidence that might challenge the memory.
		Memory biases are not found more often in anxious patients and the recall of psychiatric patients is as reliable as that of non patients.
	www.heart7.net /fms-false-construct.html (5836 words)

	Term Paper on False Memory Syndrome
		Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences.
		A repressed memory is one that is retained in the subconscious mind, where one is not aware of it but where it can still affect both conscious thoughts and behavior.
		When memory is distorted or confabulated, the result can be what has been called the false memory syndrome.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/False_Memory_Syndrome-40579.html (187 words)

	FMSF-FAQ: Frequently-Asked Questions about False Memory (with Answers)
		Many early references to false memories, pseudo-memories, and confabulations appear in the memory literature, but the use of the term false memory syndrome was introduced with the formation of the Foundation.
		Memory is constructive: that is, people take bits and fragments of recollections from the past and use them to reconstruct a narrative that makes sense to them in the here and now.
		To treat for repressed memories without any effort at external validation is malpractice pure and simple; malpractice on the basis of standards of care that have developed out of the history of psychiatric service -- as with witches -- and malpractice because a misdirection of therapy will injure the patient and the family.
	www.fmsfonline.org /fmsffaq.html (7026 words)

	false memory syndrome
		A consensus has since emerged that human memory is surprisingly prone to confusing whether an event actually occurred or whether the individual merely heard about it.
		By the final week, some children "remembered" elaborate details and continued to insist they were true even after their parents and researchers told them otherwise.
		Taken together, such laboratory studies strongly suggest that false memories, including many reported recollections of alien abduction, can be planted inadvertently by therapists.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/F/falsemem.html (285 words)

	False Memory Syndrome
		We can have quite vivid memories of past experiences which are actually false but which we absolutely believe to be true.
		People are better at creating false memories when asked to imagine the supposed event in detail, and if they are also good imagers.
		Do not depend on your memory to be completely accurate (or even any way accurate), especially if you want to believe a memory and even more especially if someone else wants to believe the memory and they are pressing you to recall it.
	changingminds.org /explanations/theories/false_memory.htm (233 words)

	Salon Health & Body \| False memory syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jenks claims this was an incorrect diagnosis spawned from the memories he was planting in her mind.
		She was ruled the victim of false memory syndrome (FMS), a sister epidemic to the widely publicized MPD.
		According to the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, 92 percent of the people who have it are female; 74 percent are between the ages of 31 and 50; 31 percent have education beyond college; and 60 percent report memory of abuse prior to age 4.
	www.salon.com /health/feature/1999/12/22/false_memory (1043 words)

	Some Comments on False Memory Syndrome
		So, my memory of the cause from 3 years of age is consistent with the long term symptoms, with the feelings I uncovered, and with the process that led to recovery.
		My memory is that Mom was telling me, when I was a young child, that she would be careful bathing me, and she explained that the water was nice and warm.
		If their beliefs are in conflict with the memory of an abused person, it is easier for them to assume that the memories of a troubled person are false than to believe their own views are wrong.
	www.angelfire.com /nb/childabuse/memory-S.htm (2757 words)

	Memory and Reality
		Some of our memories are true, some are a mixture of fact and fantasy, and some are false -- whether those memories seem to be continuous or seem to be recalled after a time of being forgotten or not thought about.
		Because of the reconstructive nature of memory, some memories may be distorted through influences such as the incorporation of new information.
		The False Memory Syndrome Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) organization founded in March, 1992.
	www.fmsfonline.org (472 words)

	Amazon.com: Child Sexual Abuse and False Memory Syndrome: Books: Robert A. Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By the time persons who have recovered memories of sexual abuse are ready to confront or prosecute their abusers, they have usually spent years in agonizing private therapy, assessing and re-assessing their memories and feelings about them, testing them over and over again.
		The term "False Memory Syndrome" is not a syndrome at all.
		It is a non-psychological term coined by the "False Memory Syndrome Foundation", whose stated purpose is to support parents who claim to be falsly accused of child abuse.
	www.amazon.com /Sexual-Abuse-False-Memory-Syndrome/dp/1573921823 (1887 words)

	Stop Bad Therapy: Protect Yourself by Being an Informed Consumer! False Memory Syndrome Information and Resources.
		Have you been falsely accused of abuse on the basis of "repressed memories" which were supposedly "recovered" during therapy?
		Read the case of Beth Rutherford, who "recovered memories" during therapy that her father had impregnated her and she'd had two abortions.
		The Memory Recovery Movement is a Cult, and it's Taxpayer Funded.
	www.stopbadtherapy.com (386 words)

	Salon \| False memory syndrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Acocella argues that the rise in recovered-memory treatment was aided by feminism and child-protection groups as well as by the belief that, as she says, "Childhood sexual abuse is very common, affecting about one-third of girls."
		Repressed memory syndrome (RMS) therapy is based on the idea that childhood traumatic events often dictate emotional behavior in adulthood.
		In his statement before the board of psychologists of the state of Idaho in 1996, Stephenson cited his paper, "Overcoming the Structure of Control," in which he explains that patients can discover this structure through motor responses to questions (hence the finger movements).
	www.salon.com /health/feature/1999/12/22/false_memory/print.html (1786 words)

	False Memory Syndrome - Repressed Memories, Sexual Abuse, Exaggerated Claims of Child Abuse
		Memory has come to be viewed more and more as a very plastic commodity, not at all rigid and fixed as originally thought.
		Learn online about false memory syndrome, repressed memories, and the harm done by psychologists in family child abuse cases at SNTP False Memory Syndrome Page.
		The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham
	www.ftrbooks.net /psych/false_memory_syndrome.htm (589 words)

	False Memory Syndrome
		Many people still believe in the existence of an epidemic of "repressed" child sexual abuse memories and organized satanic cults.
		Unproven ideas, theories, and concepts deemed to be valid, which are actually false, result in delusions when they are no longer questioned.
		They fail to understand that retrospective memory is questionable and wrongly believe that 'recalling' a memory means that it is accurate.
	www.caic.org.au /zfms-sra.htm (498 words)

	Eidetic memory: Encyclopedia - Eidetic memory
		Photographic memory, eidetic memory, or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume.
		Support for the belief that eidetic memory could be a myth was supplied by the psychologist Adriaan de Groot, who conducted an experiment into the ability of chess Grandmasters to memorise complex positions of chess pieces on a chess board.
		However, when the experts were presented with arrangements of chess pieces that could never occur in an actual game, their recall was no better than the non-experts, implying that they had developed an ability to organise certain types of information, rather than possessing innate eidetic ability.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Eidetic_memory/id/468219 (1545 words)

	Ross Institute - Traumatic Memory Statement
		Some memories have been recovered during the process of therapy or have spontaneously shown up as "flashbacks".
		These flashbacks and recovered memories continue to be the target of controversy and polarized thinking in many clinical and research circles.
		It is equally true, however, that a clinician cannot tell for sure that a memory is false.
	www.rossinst.com /mem.htm (722 words)

	Indexes - False Memory Syndrome
		Many argue that there is no such thing as False Memory Syndrome.
		Meanwhile, people do develop "memories" of events they have never experienced and they do truly believe they have experienced these events.
		Call it false memories; call it delusions, call it confabulations - it exists.
	www.caic.org.au /zfalse.htm (530 words)

	False Memory \| False Memories \| False Memory Syndrome \| Questia.com Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		...As one of the most hotly debated topics of the past decade, false memory has attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners in many of psychology's subdisciplines...
		The Necessity of Memory Experts for the Defense in Prosecutions for Child Sexual Abuse Based on Repressed Memories, in American Criminal Law Review (Includes "Therapy and the Creation of False Memories") » Read Now
		False Memories Turned against the Self, in Psychological Inquiry » Read Now
	www.questia.com /library/psychology/cognitive-psychology/false-memory.jsp (560 words)

	fmsf - false memory syndrome - False Memory Syndrome Facts - repressed memories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This site offers pointers to key resources about "false memory syndrome," dissociation, delayed recall, repression, and recovered memories of child abuse and other traumatic events.
		My goal is to offer easy access to accurate foundational information about "false memory syndrome", in the following arenas: scientific analysis, clinical practice, legal, philosophy, media, and organizations.
		Available: The journal, Ethics and Behavior, has published a special edition, "Science and Politics of Recovered Memories," which contains papers presented at a symposium chaired by Gerald Koocher at the APA.
	fmsf.com (219 words)

	Psychology Site map for kspope.com
		Pseudoscience, Cross-examination, and Scientific Evidence in the Recovered Memory Controversy
		Memory, Abuse, and Science: Questioning Claims about the False Memory Syndrome Epidemic--Award address for the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Service.
		Science As Careful Questioning: Are Claims of a False Memory Syndrome Epidemic Based on Empirical Evidence?
	www.kspope.com /site (616 words)

	phobias: False Memory [BARGAIN PRICE] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Night and Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory is nonetheless just as powerful and compulsive as anything Koontz has written before.
		The prose moves at a breakneck speed, and the denouement will leave you with a pounding heart and chills up and down your spine.
		Koontz delivers exciting, boundary-breaking fiction better than anyone else in the game, and False Memory (though at times shocking and disturbing) is a perfect example of a master author in top form.
	www.books.jumpto.us /n_B00006F7IZ.htm (540 words)

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