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Topic: Recovered Memory Therapy

	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.
		The False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) was formed by a group of parents who had been accused of child abuse, their lawyers, and sympathetic academics who promote the hypothesis of FMS and dispute the validity of recovered memories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/False_memory (1803 words)

	Repressed memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A repressed memory, according to some theories of psychology, is a memory (often traumatic) of an event or environment which is stored by the unconscious mind but outside the awareness of the conscious mind.
		On the other hand, skeptics of theories of repressed memory suggest that the supposedly "recovered" memories are actually false memories, often based on subtle suggestions by the questioner.
		By 2000, the "memory wars" were largely over and it is rare in 2005 to find a therapist who will admit conducting any form of therapy to recover so-called repressed memories.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Repressed_memory (962 words)

	Argument
		Recovered memory therapy is not the name of a particular therapeutic technique; it is a label for a class of therapies.
		Rather, therapy transpires in a cultural context which is increasingly permeated by unwarranted beliefs about the prevalence of abuse, traumatic amnesia, the clinical consequences of both abuse and amnesia, and the efficacy of recovered memory therapy.
		Kihlstrom, J.F. Posthypnotic amnesia and the dissociation of memory.
	ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~kihlstrm/argument.htm (6204 words)

	IPT Journal - "The Recovered Memory Movement: A Female Perspective"
		The memory recovery movement has harmed falsely accused parents, some of them elderly and in poor health, innocent people sued or sent to prison on the basis of uncorroborated "memories," and true abuse victims whose plight has been trivialized by the explosion of false accusations.
		The defense of recovered memory therapy became synonymous with the defense of the women's movement.
		While most of the mental health professionals opposed to recovered memory therapy are trying to save the reputation, integrity, and ethical principles of psychiatry and psychology, the mothers are fighting for the return of sanity to their adult children's lives and for reunification of the families.
	www.ipt-forensics.com /journal/volume8/j8_2_2.htm (4262 words)

	BEWARE OF FALSE MEMORIES
		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.
		Recovered Memory Therapist encourages clients to give up their natural families to included any relatives who do not agree with the client concerning the alleged abuse.
		Mark Pendergrast writes in his book Victims of Memory, that one of the primary appeals of Recovered Memory Therapy Movement is that it serves as a substitute religion in an era of shifting values, uncertainty and confusion.
	www.neuro-semanticprogramming.com /FALSEMCHONG.htm (4066 words)

	Psychiatric Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The debate over the accuracy of memories of childhood sex abuse that are recovered decades later, usually during the course of therapy, has led to the polarization of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.
		Recovered memory therapy cases were based on the concept of repression and the development of psychogenic amnesia.
		Brown (1999) argues that the retractors change their minds about memories that are indeed true because they are highly suggestible (which is probably true), and because they have been subjected to suggestion by people who believe that their memories are confabulations.
	www.psychiatrictimes.com /p991136.html (2378 words)

	IPT Journal - "Analysis of a Social Movement: Recovered Memory Therapy vs the False Memory Syndrome"
		The FMSF was established by concerned parents and professionals in response to the spread of recovered memory therapy and its adverse effects on many patients and their families.
		Memory function remains a controversial subject and practitioners often choose their position according to the views of the therapeutic school to which they belong.
		FMSF proponents claim that recovered memory therapists are implanting false memories in the heads of their patients and then treating the recovered memories as memories of actual events.
	www.ipt-forensics.com /journal/volume8/j8_3_9.htm (17152 words)

	Doubts Cast On Validity Of Recovered Memory Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A recovered memory, in the context of this paper, is the emergence of an apparent recollection of childhood sexual abuse of which the individual had no previous knowledge.
		Many of the memories 'recovered' by these measures refer to events in the early months and years of life, which fall within the period of infantile amnesia, and must be regarded as implausible for that reason.
		The issue of false or recovered memories should not, the authors emphasize, be allowed to confuse the recognition and treatment of sexually abused children.
	www.gendercenter.org /memory.htm (950 words)

	repressed memory therapy
		Repressed memory therapy (RMT) is a type of psychotherapy which assumes that problems such as bulimia, depression, sexual inhibition, insomnia, excessive anxiety, etc., are due to unconsciously repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.
		RMT uses a variety of methods--including hypnosis, visualization, group therapy, and trance writing--to assist the patient in 'remembering' the traumatic event.
		One thing the RMT group has accomplished in these Memory Wars is to divert attention from the questionable mechanism of repression and their predetermined, unscientific methods of interpreting symbolic meanings of recollections, to the issue of whether the RMT therapists are planting memories in their patients.
	skepdic.com /repress.html (3840 words)

	REPRESSED MEMORIES AND RECOVERED MEMORY THERAPY (RMT)
		..memories, by nature, are fluid and malleable, easily influenced by suggestion.
		"Recovered memories are joining electroshock, lobotomies and other psychiatric malpractice in the historical dustbin.
		A report on studies of repressed memories, with rebuttals.
	www.religioustolerance.org /rmt.htm (675 words)

	Illinois-Wisconsin False Memory Syndrome Society; fighting for those hurt by recovered memory therapy
		He said when clients in distress came to therapists who practiced recovered memory therapy (RMT), these therapists, believing that most of their clients problems were due to childhood sexual and /or Satanic ritual abuse, told their clients that such abuse was the cause of their problems.
		Memory is prone to all kinds of distortion through all types of suggestions, coming from thera-pists’ remarks and questions, from reading matter, from support groups, from guided imagery, hypnosis, etc. etc.
		She wrote to all her former clients and told them their memories might not be real, one of only a handful of recovered memory therapists who took this step, as the producers of the program pointed out.
	www.illinoisfms.org /AmerLife.html (1032 words)

	injusticebusters 2003 > > Adrian Mak: FMS survivor: Nothing wrong with his memory, though
		Recovered memory therapy, to its supporters, is still a revolutionary, therapeutic tool that helps cure people suffering from the trauma of sexual assault.
		Claudette Grieb blames a recovered memory therapist for the murder-suicide of her daughter Jackie, 26, and two-year-old granddaughter Dagmar.
		Recovered memory, according to the American Psychological Association Web site, is recalling something that has been supressed by a person because it is too painful to remember.
	www.injusticebusters.com /2003/Mak_Adrian.htm (2457 words)

	Hypnosis, Demand Characteristics, and "Recovered Memory" Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Therapy has the explicit goal of helping the patient feel, and function, better, but there are also implicit features of treatment that a therapist may prefer to keep concealed from the patient.
		This is not to argue that psychodynamic approaches to therapy are in some sense preferable or superior to treatment methods, such as the various forms of behavior modification, that do not postulate such mental mechanisms.
		As well, although empirical data indicate that hypnosis increases the volume of memory reports, they indicate also that such memories are very likely to be erroneous—even though patients may be highly confident of their veracity (E.
	journals.apa.org /prevention/volume5/pre0050040c.html (2259 words)

	Statistics relating to recovered memory therapy
		She qualifies that "NO" as being a warning and not to mean to imply that all professional psychologists are ineffective or that all therapy is a scam, but that, rather than to take the psychology industry's claims at face value, an informed decision must be made to evaluate its merits.
		Employment of the patients decreased by a factor of 8.3 during therapy, from 83% to 10%.
		But when the music stops, the dance is over and therapy is finished, the most likely conclusion is that they aren't much further ahead, that they are about where they began, with both just a little tireder and one a little (or a lot) poorer and the other a little (or a lot) richer.
	www.fathersforlife.org /health/anorexia6.htm (988 words)

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		The more common form of accusations from recovered memories are those made by adults about events that allegedly occurred years ago.
		Following recovered memory therapy, his daughter Holly made accusations that cost him his job and his marriage.
		But repressed memory therapists fail to take these precautions, and no such tests were done on this kind of therapy before turning it loose on the public.
	www.ags.uci.edu /~dehill/witchhunt/recmem.txt (955 words)

	Recovered Memory Therapy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Psychologists in support of False Memory Syndrome claim that when a child experiences any form of childhood abuse the memory immediately becomes repressed causing it to disappear from their memory.
		Critics to this theory suggest that Recovered Memory Therapy does not bring out repressed memories of actual events but rather produces false memories that are misperceived by the patient and misinterpreted by the therapist as memories.
		In this type of therapy, if the patient comes into their office complaining of emotional problems the psychotherapist suggests that these feelings may be a result of childhood abuse that they are not aware of.
	www.unc.edu /~msclark/psych20/therapy.htm (373 words)

	Psychiatric Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The recovered memory debate has been the most acrimonious, vicious and hurtful internal controversy in the history of modern psychiatry.
		It is echoed in the characterization of the repressed memory issue by Pope and Hudson (1995a, 1995b) as follows: A substantially traumatic event occurs of the type not normally likely to be forgotten.
		Both those who argue that repressed memories are always false and those who argue that repressed memories are always true (because, like the fly caught in amber, they are solidified and impervious to later contamination by influence or suggestion) appear to be mistaken.
	www.psychiatrictimes.com /p991137.html (2346 words)

	False memory syndrome: News about religious cults and sects - March 22, 2001 (Vol. 5, Issue 339) - 11/16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Signaling doubts about the validity of ''recovered memory,'' the state's highest court yesterday ordered a new trial for a Middlesex County man convicted of raping a teenager who did not recall most details of the assault until five years after it allegedly occurred.
		The concept of a ''recovered memory'' has been controversial for years in both medical and legal arenas, spawning fervent supporters and critics.
		Appellate courts in Rhode Island, Texas, California, Maryland and elsewhere have concluded that the science of recovered memories is too uncertain to be admissible in court, according to the article.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an010322k.html?FACTNet (934 words)

	Memory
		Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse: Scientific Research and Scholarly Opinion Huge resource page by a therapist who works with abuse victims.
		Explicitly does not address bad therapy or memory distortions, focuses on those cases in which abuse was genuine.
		Recovered Memory Therapy and False Memory Syndrome by John Hochman, M.D. Article in Skeptical Inquirer argues that recovered memory therapy is bad therapy
	www.psychwww.com /resource/bytopic/memory.html (575 words)

	Recovered Memory a Pandoras Box?
		The bell is tolling for the demise of recovered memory therapy.
		However those caught in the recovered memory cult have stopped their ears.
		Are you in the cult of recovered memory?
	www.angelfire.com /on2/pandora/box.html (529 words)

	Recovered Memory human experimentation
		Combine this with the total lack of any monitoring agenda involving the therapy practices of those "therapists" plus the ease with which individuals can qualify to be placed on that WCB payroll as therapists and there is no way anyone can quantify the types of therapy WCB sponsors.
		Body memories headache, nausea, dizziness, a sense that something happened, all to the Recovered Memory Therapist are interpreted as "memories" of sexual abuse which were so grave that the mind could not manage in the normal memory system therefore these "memories" were stored in a body locations for later retrieval.
		As the "therapy" proceeds the adult patient is encouraged to allow this "inner-person" to have periods of control of the body, to be the dominant personality.
	members.fortunecity.com /rmtllcorney/page-4.html (1517 words)

	PESTS: articles: Recovered-memory Therapy and False Memories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The observation that Freud’s writings, and in particular his theory of repression, are the ultimate source of the recovered memory movement which has flourished in the United States in the last decade, has been made on a number of occasions already.
		The knowledge that we cannot rely on our memories, however compelling they might be, leads to questions about the validity of criminal convictions that are based largely on the testimony of victims or witnesses.
		False memories are a common occurrence in the courtroom and in everyday life, and have long been considered by psychologists as a side effect of efforts to boost memory.
	www.sc.maricopa.edu /sbscience/pests/articles/treatments/memory.html (1314 words)

	Recovered Memories Therapy Project
		This project will help educate health seekers on how to find a consumer-centric therapist, evaluate the claims of different schools of therapy, and how to seek redress if they or a loved one are harmed by a therapist practicing questionable therapies, such as recovered memories therapy.
		One of the problems of allegations based on memories recovered in psychotherapy especially of young children is that without corroborating evidence there is no way to prove or disprove them.
		I had the pleasure of interviewing John on negotiating the maze of menal health and the recovered memories therapy project on Psychjourney As a mental health consumer and as a parent of a recovering drug addict, I have found the process of finding help a challenge at best.
	recoveredmemories.blogspot.com (2063 words)

	INDEX
		Some therapists claim to find repressed childhood memories of rape and torture in her mind.
		Some of these “healers” will tell a client that her parents have been guilty of covert or emotional incest, meaning that they had “improper thoughts.” Often, parents are also accused, in horrible detail, of satanic ritual abuse of their own children.
		If this is refused and you give her money for anything else, she will probably use it to pay her therapist - the very person who may be actively working against your family’s interest.
	www.angryparents.net (984 words)

	Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects - Relativism, Renewal, Revival, Religious Movements, Etc.
		Considered by many to be a misnomer, as the "recovered memories" usually turn out to be false.
		Other items that can be filed under this heading include such things as the ACLU's fight against Christmas displays on government property, as well as their almost morbid fear of crosses on public property.
		Atheists use these laws in their legal attacks on the display of crosses (even those at graveyards or ones erected in memory of war heroes).
	www.apologeticsindex.org /r00.html (4453 words)

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