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Weaving a life
Published in Patricia A. Murphy, A Career and Life Planning Guide for Women Survivors:, 2020
If you are an incest or molestation survivor considering filing a civil suit, you will find yourself dealing with the chaos and confusion this organization has caused. Attorneys are taking this all very seriously even though there is no such diagnosis as “false memory syndrome” in any recognized psychiatric or psychological literature such as the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as published by the American Psychiatric Association.
MRCPsych Paper A1 Mock Examination 4: Answers
Published in Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri, Get Through, 2016
Melvyn WB Zhang, Cyrus SH Ho, Roger CM Ho, Ian H Treasaden, Basant K Puri
Explanation: The concept test here is false memory. The false memory syndrome is a condition in which an individual’s identity and interpersonal relationships are centred around the memory of a traumatic experience, which in itself is false. However, the individual would still have a firm belief that the experience did actually take place. It is important to note that false confessions might not always have an underlying psychiatric cause.
Childhood Sexual, Emotional, and Physical Abuse as Predictors of Dissociation in Adulthood
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2021
Mary-Anne Kate, Graham Jamieson, Warwick Middleton
Despite strong empirical evidence linking childhood trauma to dissociation, the etiology of dissociation and DDs is contested. The fantasy model, also known as the sociocognitive model, was developed by Spanos (1996) who proposed that both recovered memories of sexual abuse and dissociative identity disorder (DID), and the recollections of childhood trauma that gave rise to it, were imagined, not real, and generated by suggestive techniques and/or influences. Spanos developed his theory at the height of the so-called memory wars that contested the veracity of recovered memories of sexual abuse. No empirical evidence of a false memory syndrome was ever found (Middleton et al., 2005), and the landmark Lost in the Mall study that is held up as evidence of the syndrome “failed to convincingly implant memories of getting lost in any of the study participants” and the study’s author Elizabeth Loftus herself admitted the results could not be applied beyond the study participants (Crook & McEwen, 2019, p. 12). The fantasy model evolved over the years, and its proponents now accept the possibility that certain recovered memories may be as genuine and accurate as continuous memories (Lynn et al., 2014). While false memory syndrome was never a medically recognized syndrome, DDs were retained in revisions of the diagnostic manual for mental disorders (DSM) with amnesia for trauma and other autobiographical events remaining a central feature (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013).
Deep Fakes and Memory Malleability: False Memories in the Service of Fake News
Published in AJOB Neuroscience, 2020
Courts in general are increasingly weary of including evidence of repressed memories extrapolated by therapists given their concerns that rediscovered repressed memories may be implanted false memories (Finer 1996). The recently dissolved False Memory Syndrome Foundation, a nonprofit group with members from the National Academy of Science, cataloged what they claimed were a number of similar cases (Mann and Naugle 2019).