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	Christian Therapist Beware of False Memory Syndrome
		John F. Kihlstrom, Ph.D. describes the False Memory Syndrome as a condition that results when the memory is distorted or confabulated so that a person's identity and interpersonal relationships are centered around a memory of a traumatic experience or experiences which are false but in which the person strongly believes.
		The person may become so focused on the memory that he or she may be effectively distracted from coping with the real problems in his or her life.
		Before Recovered Memory Therapy, she had no memory of abuse and had always felt very close to her father and was never consciously afraid of him.
	www.godrules.net /NeuroSemantics_Articals_PaulGDurbin_FalseMemory.html (3676 words)

	Creating False Memories
		In the process, Cool became convinced that she had repressed memories of having been in a satanic cult, of eating babies, of being raped, of having sex with animals and of being forced to watch the murder of her eight-year-old friend.
		Under her therapist's guidance, Rutherford developed memories of her father twice impregnating her and forcing her to abort the fetus herself with a coat hanger.The father had to resign from his post as a clergyman when the allegations were made public.
		False memories are constructed by combining actual memories with the content of suggestions received from others.
	faculty.washington.edu /eloftus/Articles/sciam.htm (3211 words)

	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 (1918 words)

	Mixing Memory: Happiness Is a False Memory
		The reason is that reading the famous name activated the knowledge of that person in their memory, and the story was encoded relationally, whereas reading a story about an unfamiliar person caused participants to focus on the particulars of the study.
		There was no difference between the number of false memories produced by participants in the positive mood and control conditions.
		The fact that there was no difference between the false memory production in the positive mood and control conditions implies that we may generally encode information relationally, and negative mood causes a shift away from our normal encoding processes toward more item-specific processes.
	mixingmemory.blogspot.com /2006/03/happiness-is-false-memory.html (1457 words)

	Memory, Abuse, and Science - Questioning Claims about the False Memory Syndrome Epidemic
		Members of the US False Memory Syndrome Foundation and psychologists in various parts of the world charged that van der Hart and his colleagues were "very dangerous." His critics charged that van der Hart's techniques represented a "harmful and unscientific method of pseudotherapy that must be seen as a threat to psychology in Israel.
		Olio (1996) noted that the critics of recovered memories have repeatedly emphasized the thesis that memory may be particularly susceptible to distorting or confabulating influences when responding to questions (especially related to the past) or giving self-reports.
		Claims about a new diagnostic category (false memory syndrome) reaching epidemic proportions, the ease with which extensive autobiographical memories about trauma can be implanted, and the large number of therapists engaging in behaviors likely to cause false memories of trauma in their patients deserve careful consideration.
	kspope.com /memory/memory.php (13673 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.feminista.com /archives/v1n9/false-memory.html (4817 words)

	Memory Loss & the Brain
		Memories are not perfect records of the past; they are vulnerable to forgetting, a process whereby details (or even entire events) can be lost.
		In general, memory is not a literal record in the way that a photograph or tape recording is.
		Children are especially susceptible to these kinds of false memory.
	www.memorylossonline.com /glossary/falsememory.html (390 words)

	False Memory
		Main description: False Memory is a major political poem of unusual ambition, written through the events of the 1990s, representing the damaged world that we know in all its violence and inequality.
		False Memory is overwhelmed by the globalized slogans of advertising, consumerism, and all the special jargons that atomize our contemporary experience from the spheres of marketing, biochemistry, military, medicine, management, history, finance, fashion, theory, poetry, painting and so on.
		The memory of Elizabethan sonnet sequences and the soft haze of their Arcadian sunlight meets the postmodern car-advert in a shiny retro-pastoral: a modular sequence of 110 fourteeners in gleaming halogen-lit chrome.
	www.saltpublishing.com /books/smp/1844710300.htm (766 words)

	False Memory Syndrom
		GENERATING FALSE MEMORIES Unlike courts of law where which attempt to obtain evidence where allegations of evildoing are made, RMT solely directs the patient to attend toward her inner world for "proof" she was sexually abused.
		These false memories apparently were inspired by exposure to the stories of those who truly experienced the trauma Memories can be deliberately distorted in adults by presenting a display of visual information, and later exposing subjects to verbal disinformation about what they saw.
		SOME LEGAL ASPECTS OF FALSE MEMORY SYNDROME In spite of the shakey foundations on which RMT is built, in the past five years legislatures and courts in 23 states both tolled the statutes of limitations when molestation is alleged, based on the assumption that individuals should not be penalized for having repressed memories.
	www.peoplefindernow.com /falsemem.htm (3241 words)

	False memories have characteristic brain activity - 09 November 2003 - New Scientist
		The difference occurs at the time of recall, suggesting that a test for false memory might one day be possible.
		Yoko Okado, who is researching false memory at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says some kind of lie detector might one day pick out such differences in brain activity.
		"While true and false memories are processed similarly in the brain, there are some key distinctive features that need to be explored further," she says.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4363 (365 words)

	Book: Science of False Memory
		Having false memories -- "recalling" events that did not happen -- is a real phenomenon that is vitally important to law and medicine.
		"False memories are a hot topic in psychological research and a major issue for society," says Daniel L. Schacter, professor of psychology at Harvard University.
		Part I covers the history of the science of false memory, reviews the varied methods that have been used to study false memory and discusses research regarding age changes in false memory and theories that have been used to explain and make predictions about false memory.
	www.news.cornell.edu /stories/Nov05/book.false.memories.ssl.html (441 words)

	False Memory Syndrome And The Brain
		False Memory Syndrome (FMS) is a condition in which a person's identity and interpersonal relationships are centered on a memory of traumatic experience which is actually false, but in which the person is strongly convinced (2).
		In the school children's case, the false memories were created by the exposure to the stories of those who actually underwent the trauma.
		False memories, in their most fundamental condition, are very real and existent in our world, as shown in the aforementioned psychology experiment.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro03/web2/kflannery.html (1170 words)

	False Memory Syndrome - Part One
		Research on memory is important for Christians to watch, because too many myths are believed as truth and too many promoters and followers of "Christian" psychology think that those assumptions are part of their "discovered" truth from God.
		The power of Gloria’s memories are so strong that even the clear evidence presented in court, which disproved her allegations, did not dissuade her from believing those memories.
		Therefore, each time a memory is recalled it is also recreated with the emotions accompanying the recall and with the imagination which fills in the gaps.
	www.psychoheresy-aware.org /falsems1.html (1493 words)

	Psychology History
		In 1974, her research thrust her into the courtroom to testify in over 200 trials as an expert witness on the unreliability of eyewitness testimonies based on false memories, which she believed to be triggered, suggested, implanted, or created in the mind.
		It is an attempt to justify innocent people from being prosecuted and families being torn apart based on her explanation of the false memory phenomenon.
		She has done innumerable studies of over 20,000 subjects showing that eyewitness testimonies are often unreliable and that false memories can be triggered in up to 25 percent of people merely by suggestion or giving of incorrect post event information (Niemark,1996).
	www.muskingum.edu /~psychology/psycweb/history/loftus.htm (1765 words)

	Debunking 'false memory' myths in sexual abuse cases by Wendy J. Murphy
		Recovered memory cases are facing new and substantial pre-trial hurdles, sometimes leading to dismissal orders and summary judgment decisions that deny victims their day in court.
		At the heart of the problem is the largely contrived controversy around "false memory syndrome" and the alleged unreliability of "repressed" memories.
		To counter this overwhelming evidence that the mind is capable of repressing traumatic memories of child sexual abuse, defendants will attempt to have their experts testify about "false memory syndrome," the "implanting" of "false memories," and the "highly memorable nature" of traumatic events.
	www.smith-lawfirm.com /Murphy_Memory_Article.html (3164 words)

	Amazon.ca: False Memory: Books: Tony Lopez,Antony Lopez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		False Memory, the new collection by Conductors of Chaos contributor Tony Lopez, is certainly experimental, but it’s an experiment carried out under strictly controlled conditions-the collection consist of eleven sets of ten unrhymed (mostly alexandrine) sonnets-and the results are impressive.
		False Memory is a major political poem, written through the events of the 1990s, representing the damaged world that we know in all its violence and inequality.
		Focusing on public language rather than private experience, False Memory is an hilarious collage of all the specialized jargons and advertised slogans that situate us in the postmodern world.
	www.amazon.ca /False-Memory-Tony-Lopez/dp/1844710300 (391 words)

	A False Memory Detector
		Our memories are, to some degree, like a final-cut videotape: Research confirms that each of us continually edits and splices recollections, replacing one "picture" with another, sometimes with a little outside assistance.
		Known to be a memory center, the hippocampus lights up in brain scans when people look at something new or later try to remember its appearance.
		Early efforts centered on the hope that accurate recollections would trigger more activity in the hippocampus than would false ones, but researchers discovered that an implanted false memory was indistinguishable from a true one.
	www.truthinjustice.org /false-memory.htm (1080 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)

	Mixing Memory : Bilingual False Memories
		The Mixing Memory Reading Group is a place for experts and non-experts alike to discuss books and papers in cognitive science.
		False memory research has been very popular over the last several years, in part because of its connection to one of the more contentious debates in cognitive science: the recovered memories debate.
		The vast majority of the experiments on false memory aren't the least bit interesting, because they tell us very little about memory, or anything else for that matter, and they all use variants of the same two experimental paradigms.
	scienceblogs.com /mixingmemory/2006/06/bilingual_false_memories_1.php (1656 words)

	Memory Loss & the Brain
		This book is generally credited with starting the recent interest in recovered memory, whereby therapy helps an individual recover a supposedly "repressed" memory.
		The author shows how easy it can be to instill false memories in volunteers, casting doubt on whether we can really trust recovered memories.
		This is a scientific article in a technical journal with further details about creating false memories in the laboratory.
	www.memorylossonline.com /resources/r_falsememory.htm (270 words)

	False Memory Syndrome - Part Two
		While one cannot conduct experiments in which memories of abuse are implanted during the experiment because of the resulting damage to the subjects, Loftus has conducted research on people (of wide age ranges) who were told by a relative that they were lost when they were five years old.
		If the therapy is regressive in that it searches the memory for past events to explain present behavior, there is a strong possibility that false memories will be created.
		Worse than feeling weird or losing inconsequential details of memory is the fact that many people are suffering great pain in the kind of therapy which attempts to dredge up old memories to explain present problems.
	www.psychoheresy-aware.org /falsems2.html (1974 words)

	About False Memory Syndrome
		"a condition in which a person's identity and interpersonal relationships are centered around a memory of traumatic experience which is objectively false but in which the person strongly believes.
		Note that the syndrome is not characterized by false memories as such.
		Rather, the syndrome may be diagnosed when the memory is so deeply ingrained that it orients the individual's entire personality and lifestyle, in turn disrupting all sorts of other adaptive behavior.
	www.stopbadtherapy.com /fms/intro.shtml (190 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)

	NPR : Biological Basis for False Memories Revealed
		An image from a test for false memories developed by Ken Paller and colleagues of Northwestern University.
		In testing for false memories, Ken Paller of Northwestern University and colleagues showed volunteers in an MRI brain scanner a series of pictures and words on a video screen.
		Because of this overlap, brain imaging is unlikely at this point to be useful in determining who is remembering accurately and who is remembering a false memory.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123031 (321 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)

	Amazon.com: False Memory: Books: Dean Koontz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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.
		False Memory could have been trimmed by 200 pages and not lost any impact.
		False Memory by Dean Koontz is a study of terror...it delves into the deepest part of an individual's sub-conscious and the complexities inherent.
	www.amazon.com /False-Memory-Dean-Koontz/dp/0553580221 (3006 words)

	Is There a False Food-Memory Diet?
		Those food memories were totally false, made up by researchers for a study.
		They had no idea their childhood food memories were being tweaked.
		In follow-up surveys, the students who got the false strawberry ice cream memory were now turned off from the flavor, even if they'd eaten strawberry ice cream recently.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/109/109321.htm (330 words)

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