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ale3304 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I understand the anger that people who really have been molested feel, when their testimony is doubted.
But the thruth is that the mind and memory are very maleable, in some people more than others; and they can be manipulated by irresponsible therapists that long for the recognition making such a discovery in someone would bring them.
lighwave (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Too many innocent people were accused by incompetent therapists & social workers. False memory syndrome had many innocent people accused of things they never did. It's now known that memory is not the best proof of anything especially in a court of law, where you need actual evidence.
realzoomy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
There is indeed such a thing as false memory syndrome. It was invented by a dirty stink of a man called Ralph Underwager, to cover up kiddy fiddling.
False memory syndrome is a pedophile's alibi, invented by a pedo for all pedos.
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Consider the Evidence for Elizabeth Loftus'
Scholarship and Accuracy.
"Remembering Dangerously" & Hoult v. Hoult:
The Myth of Repressed Memory that Elizabeth Loftus Created by Jennifer Hoult, Esq.
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
"Memory, Abuse, & Science: Questioning Claims about the False Memory Syndrome Epidemic" (1996). American Psychologist vol. 51, no. 9: pp957--974.
^ Hopper, J.. "Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse Scientific Research & Scholarly Resources". "Loftus has conducted and published research which calls into question her public statements on recovered memories; her own study demonstrated that the conditions of amnesia and delayed recall for sexual abuse do exist"
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Pezdek, K; Hodge, D. (July-August 1999). "Planting false childhood memories: The role of event plausibility". Child Development 70 (4): 887--895. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00064.
Crook, L. (1999). "Lost in a Shopping Mall--A Breach of Professional Ethics.". Ethics & Behavior. 9 (1): 39--50. doi:10.1207/s15327019eb0901_3
Pope, K. (1996). "Memory, Abuse, and Science: Questioning Claims About the False Memory Syndrome Epidemic". American Psychologist 51: 957. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.51.9.957
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
He also talks about the problem of confounding variables in the study. If an older family member claims to have seen the "false" memory, can a therapist make the same claim? And should this research be applied to "false" memories in therapy?[4][5] Others have also critiqued Loftus' scholarship and accuracy[6] or that Loftus' has done research that may contradict her own beliefs of recovered memories. [7]
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Crook also states that it has been demonstrated that the "methods, data, and assumptions in the mall study have not been subjected to rigorous scientific scrutiny" yet its results have been reported to the media to support the claim that "therapists can implant false memories of childhood trauma."[2] Pope also questions the study. He questions the analogy of a memory of being lost in the mall as being equivalent to that of child rape.
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Crook states that the Lost in a Shopping Mall study's application to therapy situations appears to be "limited to a narrowly defined and perhaps even unlikely situation" and states that the study's "internal scientific methodological errors cast doubt on the validity of the claims" of the study.[3] [1]
stopchildmolesters (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Several studies and authors have found significant flaws in the Lost in the Mall study. A similar study by Pezdek in 1995 found that while researchers were able to duplicate the lost in the mall results with 15% of their subjects, none of the study participants accepted an erroneous memory that they had received a painful enema as a child.[1][2] |
