Controversies

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• Society: People: Men: Issues: Violence and Abuse: False Accusations: False Memory Syndrome  (15)

• Abelard - The Myth of Repressed Memory - An article which examines the proposal that humans are highly suggestible and memory is very unreliable. Site offers contact information and links to related topics.
• Beware Of False Memories: Revised - Chaplain Paul G. Durbin, PhD, describes his experiences with his patients during age regression, and cautiously instructs therapists against leading questions.
• Boards2Go: Recovered Memory Messageboards - An open discussion board predominantly anti-recovered memories therapy.
• Bringing Justice to Wenatchee - Journalist Paul Craig Roberts lays the blame for the Wenatchee Witch Hunt squarely at the feet of "hysterical liberals."
• Courage to Sue: A Parody of Psychotherapy - A sardonic statement applying the principles found in Courage To Heal to the therapist rather than the patient.
• Debunking "False Memory" Myths in Sexual Abuse Cases - An article by Attorney Wendy Murphy.
• Discrediting the False Memory Syndrome Foundation - Directory of web resources regarding recovered memory.
• False Memory Reading Group - Searchable archive of article summaries prepared by the False Memory Reading Group at the University of Arkansas.
• "False Memory Syndrome" Facts - Recovered-memories therapist Linda Chapman presents resources about false memory syndrome, dissociation, delayed recall, repression, and recovered memories of child abuse and other traumatic events.
• HealthCentral.com Cool Tools - Self-experiment showing the ease with which the mind can be fooled about "remembering" something.
• Male Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse - First-person account of recovered memories from Scott Barak Abraham.
• Memory and Reality - The official website of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Memory studies, retractor stories, legal information, newsletters, information on hypnosis, and a scientific focus are presented.
• The Memory Debate Archives - Over 3000 topical cites and 500 links on both sides of the repressed and recovered memories issue.
• Memory, Trauma Treatment, and the Law - Book review by Helen McGonigle of the book by Brown, Sheflin and Hammond.
• Ohio Association of Responsible Mental Health Practices - OARMHP is a state chapter of FMSF.
• Pseudoscience, Cross-examination, and Scientific Evidence in the Recovered Memory Controversy - A white paper from the American Psychological Association journal "Psychology, Public Policy, and Law", examining the concept of recovered memories from a research perspective.
• Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse - Information from APA's Public Affairs Office to help you understand how repressed, recovered, or suggested memories of childhood abuse may occur and what you can do if you or a family member is concerned about a childhood memory.
• Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse - Presents scientific research and scholarly resources addressing amnesia and delayed recall for memories of childhood sexual abuse.
• The Recovered Memory Project - An Internet-based research project which is gathering corroborated cases of recovered memories.
• Recovered Memory Therapy - Description of repressed memories and recovered memory therapy from the point of view that it represents a therapy hoax.
• Therapeutic Hypnosis - Analysis and criticism of the court opinion in Borawick v. Shaw disallowing the testimony of a victim of sexual abuse who had been been treated with hypnosis.
• Trauma & Cognitive Science Meeting - Tapes available of scientific meeting covering the way in which trauma interacts with information processing. A particular focus will be on how traumatic information is encoded, stored, and later retrieved from memory.
• Treating Patients With Memories of Abuse : Legal Risk Management - Written by Samuel J. Knapp and Leon VandeCreek, this book covers the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse--particularly patients who recover memories while in treatment. Order page.

• Science Daily | "I Tawt I Taw" A Bunny Wabbit At Disneyland: New Evidence Shows False Memories Can Be Created - Article describing an experiment where about one-third of the people who were exposed to a fake print advertisement that described a visit to Disneyland and how they met and shook hands with Bugs Bunny later said they remembered or knew the event happened to them. (June 12, 2001)