Progress in Forensic and Clinical Understanding of Recovered Memories and False Memories

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Dalenberg ◽  
Steven Gold
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
Recovered Memories

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.

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.

False Memories

2007 ◽  
Vol 215 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Caroline Steffens ◽  
Silvia Mecklenbräuker
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Drm Paradigm ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Adults And Children

Abstract. In recent years, there has been an explosion of research on false memories: The subjective experience of remembering something if that something did apparently not happen in reality. We review a range of findings concerning this phenomenon: False memories of details and of whole events by adults and children, as well as false memories of words in laboratory experiments (in the DRM paradigm). We also briefly discuss the converse phenomenon: Evidence of forgetting or repression of significant events, and evidence of recovered memories. Knowledge of both phenomena is needed for judging whether “new” memories are false, recovered, or whether both options are possible. More general as well as specific theories explaining false memories are discussed, and we close with implications for practice.

scholarly journals Significance of Blocked and Recovered Memories in Psychotherapy

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pankhuri Aggarwal
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Studies

Validity of blocked memories and subsequently recovering those memories has long been a subject of debate in the field of Psychology. These memories are often viewed in contrast to manufactured memories, although researches have simultaneously indicated that both are inseparable from one another. Given the blurred boundaries between the two, it becomes essential on the part of the psychotherapist to investigate during the process of assessment as to whether his/her client’s recalled memories during the course of therapy are truly authentic or confabulated (both due to intentional and unintentional reasons) because of its understandable implications for therapy or otherwise. It is also important to examine the possibility of blocking traumatic memories with psychological processes such as dissociation and repression. More often than not, therapy is directed towards recovering traumatic memories of the past, which if not accurate and authentic, may defeat the very purpose of therapeutic contact. This paper reviews research studies from two opposing viewpoints, one which exerts the existence of blocked and recovered memories and the other which attempts to claim its inauthenticity, while emphasizing what the researchers’ term as false memories. The author attempts to bring the two views together in the light of suggesting future directions for research and therapy.

Recovered memories and false memories.

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-438
Author(s):  
Martin A. Conway
Keyword(s):  
False Memories ◽  
Recovered Memories

scholarly journals Recovered Memories and Accusations of Sexual Abuse: A Review of Scientific Research Relevant to Missionary Contexts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robert Dunaetz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Recovered Memories ◽  
Christian Organizations ◽  
Missionary Children

Childhood sexual abuse of missionary children is a tragedy that mission organizations are seeking to prevent. A second tragedy concerns missionaries falsely accused of sexual abuse. Psychotherapy that generated false memories of sexual abuse was common in the 1980s and 1990s and still continues to some degree today in Christian circles. This chapter reviews scientific evidence that such false memories exist and provides guidelines that Christian organizations may use to help sort true memories of childhood sexual abuse from false memories of childhood sexual abuse.

Recovered memories and false memories

2020 ◽  
pp. 884-894
Author(s):  
Deborah Davis ◽  
Elizabeth F. Loftus
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
False Memories ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Memory Distortion ◽  
Recovered Memories

This chapter provides a brief review of the history and elements of the controversy surrounding the reality of repression and recovery of memories of sexual abuse and other traumatic events. The main body of the chapter concerns the mechanisms through which false memories of such events can be formed. These include the importance of culturally prevalent misconceptions regarding the operation of memory, suggestion in the context of therapy and other social interactions, prominent books promoting misconceptions regarding memory and abuse, and processes that can alter or create elements of memory (belief, sensory images, and the criteria by which these are judged as memories or not). Suggestions are offered for how claims of repressed and recovered memories should be treated in court and for practices with potential for memory distortion that should be avoided.

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