Memory Controversies

• Society: Issues: Children and Youth: Child Abuse 
• Society: People: Men: Issues: Violence and Abuse: False Accusations: False Memory Syndrome 

• "I Tawt I Taw" A Bunny Wabbit At Disneyland: New Evidence Shows False Memories Can Be Created  - Article describing an experiment where people were exposed to a fake print advertisement that described a visit to Disneyland.
• Abelard - The Myth of Repressed Memory  - Article that examines the proposal that humans are highly suggestible and memory is very unreliable. Site offers contact information and links to related topics.
• Beware Of False Memories: Revised  - Chaplain Paul G. Durbin, PhD, describes his experiences with his patients during age regression, and cautiously instructs therapists against leading questions.
• Boards2Go: Recovered Memory Messageboards  - Open discussion board that delves predominantly on anti-recovered memories therapy.
• Bringing Justice to Wenatchee  - Journalist Paul Craig Roberts lays the blame for the Wenatchee Witch Hunt squarely at the feet of "hysterical liberals.".
• Courage to Sue: A Parody of Psychotherapy  - Believes in the principles that the healing is with the therapist rather than the patient.
• Discrediting the False Memory Syndrome Foundation  - Shows directory of web resources regarding recovered memory.
• False Memory Reading Group  - Features reading list from the Lampinen Lab Spring 1999, with links to student-generated summaries of each article.
• Male Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse  - Relates first-person account of recovered memories from Scott Barak Abraham.
• Memory and Reality  - Official website of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation presents memory studies, retractor stories, legal information, newsletters, information on hypnosis, and a scientific focus.
• Ohio Association of Responsible Mental Health Practices  - State chapter of the national organization for mental health issues.
• Pseudoscience, Cross-examination, and Scientific Evidence in the Recovered Memory Controversy  - White paper from the American Psychological Association journal "Psychology, Public Policy, and Law", examining the concept of recovered memories from a research perspective.
• Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse  - Reveals information from APA's Public Affairs Office to help understand how repressed, recovered, or suggested memories of childhood abuse may occur.
• Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse  - Presents scientific research and scholarly resources addressing amnesia and delayed recall for memories of childhood sexual abuse.
• The Recovered Memory Project  - Internet-based research project gathering corroborated cases of recovered memories.
• Recovered Memory Therapy  - Describes repressed memories and recovered memory therapy from the point of view that it represents a therapy hoax.
• Trauma & Cognitive Science Meeting  - Focuses on how traumatic information is encoded, stored, and later retrieved from memory.
• Treating Patients With Memories of Abuse : Legal Risk Management  - Covers the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse--particularly patients who recover memories while in treatment.