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Very interesting. It seems to me that this "defense" is one that is used MOST OFTEN
to discredit childrens testimony of abuse and Satanic Occult ritual, and, no doubt,
other related areas, child sacrifice, drug running, blodd rituals, etc. If even SOME
of those cases can now be taken as true then doesn't that warrant a wholesale
reinvestigation of the many cases that had previously been resolved by labelling the
victims as being misled by FMS? At the very least it should be cause for concern and
follow up. I am not trying to say that ALL cases are REAL or FALSE, but if ANY of
them are then think of what that means in the greater scheme of things. Incidentally,
has anyone ever bothered to check on the recanted testimony of "victims", and the
influence of a sort of False Memore Syndrome, in reverse, that has been perpetrated
upon them by the repeated barraging of their minds with denials and total lack of
belief on the part of authorities sent to investigate. They, in the face of such
negativity may start to believe, falsely, that their own true memories MUST be false
because they simply can't be true in light of "expert" incredulity. Extrapolate this
to the total and complete refusal of Law Enforcement, and the Medical Professional
Community to give ANY credence to Satanic and Occult ritual and sacrifice, thus
setting up the paradigm right from the start.
On Wed, 15 March 2000, "Robert F. Tatman" wrote:
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> Research Casts Doubt on False Memory Syndrome
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> By Patricia Reaney
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> LONDON, Mar 14 (Reuters) -- British scientists say they have cast doubts on
> the prevalence of False Memory Syndrome and the idea that recovered memories
> are often bogus ones induced by therapists.
>
> The theory that memories of events which never occurred can be constructed
> by suggestion during therapy has been used successfully as a defense by
> those accused of child abuse, to discredit children's testimony.
>
> Researchers at University College London claim their study of data from 236
> adults with recovered memories shows many are of true past events.
>
> "There is now consistent evidence that 'False Memory Syndrome' cannot
> explain all, or even most, examples of recovered memories of trauma," the
> British Psychological Society said in a statement.
>
> "There is increasing evidence that many recovered memories cannot be
> explained by so-called False Memory Syndrome. To date there is no convincing
> evidence for a specific False Memory Syndrome," Dr Bernice Andrews, who
> conducted the study, told Reuters.
>
> "What we've shown is that a substantial proportion of these memories have
> been corroborated," she said in a telephone interview. Contrary to common
> belief, she added, not all repressed memories are about childhood sexual
> abuse. They can result from many types of trauma and not all are recovered
> during therapy.
>
> "People often come into therapy because they have started to remember things
> that have happened in the past. In our study around a third of cases were
> people who came into therapy after recovering memories," said Andrews.
>
> She and her colleagues interviewed 108 qualified therapists about the 236
> patients. They said the most common triggers for recovering memories were
> events concerning patients' own children that they associated with violence
> or fear that they felt themselves.
>
> Less often books, videos and memory recovery techniques were used to help
> patients recall the events.
>
> "Therapists in the majority of cases do not use aggressive, suggestive
> techniques to get their clients to remember things. They (memories) come up
> just as a matter of course during therapy and are often accompanied by a lot
> of emotion as though the person is reliving the event in the present,"
> Andrews explained.
>
> The researchers said their study cannot prove that all recovered memories
> are true.
>
> "You certainly can't explain all instances of people recovering memories in
> therapy in terms of so-called False Memory Syndrome," Andrews added.
>
>
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