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False memory syndrome: A therapeutic tool?

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Xelebes:

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--- Quote from: "BuzzKill" ---From our perspective I think it could be interesting as what it explains and describes also fits well with what takes place in many of the programs - the group pressure to admit and describe family abuse, as well as ones own vile escapades - which often leads kids to create memories - and which can, in the right sort of personality, become fixed as a fact they now remember.
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It can work in both directions, creating abuse where none exists, as well as negating bona fide abuse that really does exist.
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My grandmother has this issue.  She could never admit that her father was a raging alcoholic and was responsible for her mother's death, and that her brother paid her way to university so that she could escape the abuse.  Still to this day she will slink away to her room to cry over the loss of her mother, but admit she will never do.

BuzzKill:
Your right that this door swings both ways. This can be the very thing that makes these issues so painfully difficult to judge. In each case, convincing one of false abuse, or denying real abuse, great harm can be done.  I was answering more to creating false memories, b/c thats the problem being dealt with on this thread.

Oscar:
Here is an long article about False memory used to create criminal charges against families. In this case from Norway 33 families suffered. I have chosen not to quote it due to the length of the article.

Professionals as Evaluators or Indoctrinators in Sex Abuse Cases
Astrid Holgerson, Institute for Psychological Therapies, Volume 7 - 1995

WaltersB:
That was so interesting and entertaining to read it you guys! Many thanks for sharing this info, that was so exciting to get to know this everything!    :rocker:

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