Mental Health Memory Controversies
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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) Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.