The Recovered Memories Controversy: Where Do We Go from Here?

2005 ◽  
pp. 69-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Stephen Lindsay ◽  
J. Don Read
Keyword(s):  
Recovered Memories

Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-205
Author(s):  
Megan Cleary
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
Repressed Memory ◽  
University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

Therapists' Attitudes Toward Abuse, Abused Patients, and Recovered Memories

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley A. Houston ◽  
Riley E. Cropper ◽  
Asher I. Johnson ◽  
Melissa H. Rosenberg ◽  
Noah P. Bussell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recovered Memories

Reflections on Recovered Memories: Comment on Patihis and Pendergrast (2019)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Jay Lynn ◽  
Harald Merckelbach ◽  
Craig P. Polizzi
Keyword(s):  
Informed Consent ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Recovered Memory ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Close Link ◽  
Repressed Memories

In this comment on Patihis and Pendergrast (this issue, p. 3), we challenge an assumption that underpins recovered memory therapies: that there exists a close link of traumatic experiences with dissociation. We further suggest that (a) researchers examine how therapists who believe in repressed memories instill this belief in clients and establish expectations that current problems can be interpreted in light of past traumatic experiences, (b) recovered memories could be classified and studied as a function of how events come to light and are interpreted, and (c) therapists routinely provide informed consent regarding recovered memories and suggestive techniques.

Did Freud Mislead Patients to Confabulate Memories of Abuse? A Reply to Gleaves and Hernandez (1999)

2004 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 863-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell A. Powell ◽  
Douglas P. Boer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Recovered Memories

Gleaves and Hernandez have argued that skepticism about the validity of Freud's seduction theory, including by Powell and Boer, is largely unjustified. This paper contends that their analysis is in many ways both inaccurate and misleading. For example, we did not, as they implied, reject the possibility that some of Freud's early patients were victims of childhood sexual abuse. We also maintain that the weight of the available evidence indicates that false memories of traumatic events probably can be implanted, and that Freud's (1896/1962a) original evidence for the validity of his patients' recovered memories remains lacking in several respects—particularly in view of the extremely suggestive procedures he often used to elicit such memories.

Forgetting of Trauma Cues in Adults Reporting Continuous or Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. McNally ◽  
Carel S. Ristuccia ◽  
Carol A. Perlman
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Divided Attention ◽  
Adult Survivors ◽  
Memory Deficits ◽  
Recovered Memory ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Betrayal Trauma ◽  
History Of ◽  
Memory Group

According to betrayal trauma theory, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) who were molested by their caretakers (e.g., a father) are especially likely to dissociate (“repress”) their memories of abuse. Testing college students, some reporting CSA, DePrince and Freyd (2004) found that those scoring high on a dissociation questionnaire exhibited memory deficits for trauma words when they viewed these words under divided-attention conditions. Replicating DePrince and Freyd's procedure, we tested for memory deficits for trauma words relative to neutral words in adults reporting either continuous or recovered memories of CSA versus adults denying a history of CSA. A memory deficit for trauma words under divided attention was expected in the recovered-memory group. Results were inconsistent with this prediction, as all three groups exhibited better recall of trauma words than neutral words, irrespective of encoding conditions.

Recovered Memories of Child Abuse:

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie M. Kristiansen ◽  
Kathleen A. Felton ◽  
Wendy E. Hovdestad
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Recovered Memories

scholarly journals Traumatisme, mémoire et fantasme : la réalité psychique

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Scarfone
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
Recovered Memories

RÉSUMÉ Face au débat qui fait rage, surtout aux États-Unis, à propos de rétablissement, par la voie de psychothérapie ou de la psychanalyse, de la réalité des événements traumatiques, l'auteur insiste sur un usage rigoureux des termes du débat. La théorie freudienne, axée ici autour du concept de réalité psychique, ne saurait se porter à l'appui inconditionnel de Tune ou l'autre des parties en présence (« recovered memories » et « false memories »). Il s'agit au contraire de poser l'originalité du concept de réalité psychique, qui se distingue à la fois de la réalité événementielle et de la pure imagination. L'auteur souligne l'approche spécifiquement psychanalytique de l'accès à la mémoire, et s'en sert pour critiquer tant les notions de « souvenirs retrouvés » que de « faux souvenirs », tout en réaffirmant ce qui serait une éthique fondamentale de la psychanalyse et de toute psychothérapie qui prétend s'en inspirer.

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