{"id":13074,"date":"2022-09-30T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13074"},"modified":"2022-09-30T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:37:12","slug":"reassessing-the-failures-of-recovered-memory-therapies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13074","title":{"rendered":"Reassessing the Failures of “Recovered Memory” Therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"From the New York Times<\/em> (but this link gets you past the paywall) <\/p>\n

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, an article called “The Forgotten Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement”<\/a> is well worth reading.<\/p>\n

During the 1980s and into the 1990s, countless psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, and other therapists \u2014 aided by law enforcement, prosecutors, and the news media \u2014pushed a narrative of “repressed abuse.”<\/p>\n

That narrative in turn spawned “Satanic ritual abuse,” largely created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Lawrence Pazder, and his patient\/lover, “Michelle.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Quite a few Pagans were dragged into this, since “Michelle” and others claimed to have been abused by “witches” wearing robes and holding nocturnal rituals. But their voices and those of some scholars of new religious movements never got the media push that the “survivors” enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Lists of the symptoms that supposedly indicated repressed abuse often went on for pages in these texts. E. Sue Blume\u2019s book Secret Survivors<\/em> listed over 70 symptoms indicative of repressed abuse. The psychologist Renee Fredrickson\u2019s book Repressed Memories<\/em> describes over 60. Do you have trouble trusting your intuition? Do you neglect your teeth? Have joint pain? Do certain foods nauseate you? Do you sometimes space out or daydream? If you have some of these warning signals, \u201cyou probably do have repressed memories,\u201d wrote Dr. Fredrickson. In their books and papers, therapists described themselves as clever detectives searching patients\u2019 lives for unexplained emotional responses or feelings, which might be the first sign of hidden pasts.<\/p>\n

.\u00a0 .\u00a0 .\u00a0 .<\/p>\n

Pop culture also seemed to drive two of the more incredible outgrowths of the movement: the precipitous rise of multiple personality disorder and the widespread belief that satanic cults were abusing children on an industrial scale. Two best-selling books, Sybil<\/em>, published in 1973, and Michelle Remembers<\/a>,<\/em> published in 1980, were critical in stoking public interest. Both books tell supposedly true stories of therapists helping their patients recover memories during therapy. Both were later thoroughly<\/a> debunked<\/a> \u2014 but not until long after they had their impact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all!<\/a><\/p>\n

Live were ruined, people went to actual jail for crimes based on what they called in Salem “spectral evidence,” and for the most part, none of the therapists suffered or even admitted that they had been wrong. After all, they were “helping” people who were “in pain.” Hospitals were not so involved, back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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