Well Daniel, what would you call what I sent through. Simply put. Make me understand what you think repressed memories are or just all fiction and I'm just bsing everyone.
I've been to hell and back. Been the prodigal son. Torn to shreds and came back to the Father. We had a blast we I committed my life back to Him. So while I was okay for like five years. In 2010 I started to have nightmares about what I went through in fragments. It made the memories come to the surface to where I would pay attention to them.
I could no longer repress them. That's why there called repressed memories.
That is one for a true professional to answer, not me. All I know is from the research is that repressed memories are configuration of past events and what one's mind makes up or plays tricks on one.
The most current research that I am aware of is:
L. Patihis, L. Y. Ho, I. W. Tingen, S. O. Lilienfeld, and E. F. Loftus. "Are the 'Memory Wars" Over? A Scientist-Practitioner Gap in Beliefs About Repressed Memory." Psychological Science, Dec 13, 2013. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...s-and-practitioners-disagree-repressed-memory Read the full article it is a good summery.
Researchers and Court Systems have rejected Repressed Memory Syndrome based on the overwhelming lack of hard evidence.
If not authentic, the memories could be due to fantasy, illusion, or hallucination-mediated screen memories, internally derived as a defense mechanism. Further paraphrasing Ganaway, the SRA memories combine a mixture of borrowed ideas, characters, myths, and accounts from exogenous sources with idiosyncratic internal beliefs. Once activated, the manufactured memories are indistinguishable from factual memories. Inauthentic memories could also be externally derived as a result of unintentional implantation of suggestion by a therapist or other perceived authority figure with whom the client desires a special relationship, interest, or approval.
https://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/lof93.htm this article presents both sides.
Dr. John F. Kihlstrom, professor of psychology at the University of California in San Francisco, has suggested the following definition:
A condition in which a person’s identity and interpersonal relationships are centered around a memory of traumatic experience which is objectively false but in which the person strongly believes. Note that the syndrome is not characterized by false memories as such. We all have memories that are inaccurate. Rather, the syndrome may be diagnosed when the memory is so deeply ingrained that it orients the individual’s entire personality and lifestyle, in turn disrupting all sorts of other adaptive behavior. The analogy to personality disorder is intentional. False Memory Syndrome is especially destructive because the person assiduously avoids confrontation with any evidence that might challenge the memory. Thus it takes on a life of its own, encapsulated and resistant to correction. The person may become so focused on memory that he or she may be effectively distracted from coping with the real problems in his or her life.(Kihlstrom, 1997)
http://www.fmsfonline.org/?faq=faq False Memory Syndrome Foundation
Michigan Supreme Court Declines to Rule: 3rd Party Case to Proceed
FMSF News Alert - May 11, 2016
Dear Friends,
Roberts v. Salmi. Michigan Supreme Court. SC 150919, COA: 316068
Houghton CC: 2012-01-015075 -NH
On May 6, 2016, after considering briefs and hearing oral arguments, the Michigan Supreme Court vacated their order to allow an appeal of the December 18, 2014 Court of Appeals decision. The Michigan Supreme Court statement said only "we are no longer persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court."
This means that the 3rd party suit brought by Lale and Joan Roberts against their daughter’s therapist Kathryn Salmi may proceed.
The Roberts filed a lawsuit in Houghton County, Michigan, claiming that Kathryn Salmi’s counseling techniques caused the allegations of sexual abuse by her father. After an investigation, no charges were ever filed against the father.
The issue is whether mental health professionals have a duty of care to third parties if memory recovery techniques are used. In 2014, the Appeals Court said "yes."
Zachary Kemp, the attorney representing the Lale and Joan Roberts, stated that the parents had looked in the background of Salmi and, "they had to put their trust in (Salmi) in hopes that she would do her job, not harm [their] child, and certainly not implant false memories of abuse that never happened."
Beth Wittmann, attorney for Kathryn Salmi stated: "In the context of allegations of physical or sexual abuse perpetrated on a minor, the loyalty of the therapist lies only with the patient and not third parties, particularly third parties who are the alleged perpetrators of the abuse."
We have written about the details of this case previously. They may be found at:
FMSF 2014 News Updates - Michigan Court of Appeals Revives Lawsuit Against Therapist
See: Associated Press. (2016, MY 7). Court: Key ruling in U.P. false memories case will stand. Detroit Free Press. Retrieved on May 8, 2016 from
Court: Key ruling in U.P. false memories case will stand
J. Bean and Pamhttp://
www.fmsfonline.org/index.php?newsupdate=newsupdates
The case eventually made its way to the U.S. Second Circuit Court, which affirmed dismissal of the case.[12] The court observed that "the literature has not yet conclusively demonstrated that hypnosis is a consistently effective means to retrieve repressed memories of traumatic, past experiences accurately." The court added that the plaintiff’s "far-fetched, uncorroborated" claims against other parties, including allegations that she was raped and sexually abused at the age of 3 by men she believed to be Masons and drugged and forced to drink blood at a ritual involving a dead pig, "erodes our confidence in the allegations." [13] The panel also noted her hypnotist’s lack of qualifications and his failure to keep records of his procedures and said that without such records a court cannot determine if the therapist was inadvertently suggestive or used suspect techniques in conducting the hypnosis. The court proposed that trial courts should consider the following (nonexclusive) factors at a pretrial evidentiary hearing before deciding whether to admit posthypnotic testimony: the aim or subject of the hypnosis session, possible suggestions from the hypnotist, whether a permanent record of the hypnosis session is available, and the existence of corroborating evidence. The burden of persuading the trial court that the balance tips in favor of admissibility should be on the party that seeks to admit the testimony, the appeals court added.
http://www.fmsfonline.org/?ginterest=RecoveredMemoriesInTheCourts
From Refusal to Reconciliation - Family Relationships After an Accusation Based on Recovered Memories, by Paul R. McHugh, MD, Harold I. Lief, MD, Pamela P. Freyd, PhD., and Janet M. Fetkewicz, MA. Published in
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, August 2004.
The Science of False Memory
C. J. Brainerd,
V. F. Reyna
Oxford University Press, May 5, 2005 -
Psychology - 578 pages
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Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions have been reached after a decade or so of intensive research, the majority of them are not well known outside the immediate field. To make this research accessible to a much wider audience, The Science of False Memory has been written to require little or no background knowledge of the theory and techniques used in memory research. Brainerd and Reyna introduce the volume by considering the progenitors to the modern science of false memory, and noting the remarkable degree to which core themes of contemporary research were anticipated by historical figure such as Binet, Piaget, and Bartlett. They continue with an account of the varied methods that have been used to study false memory both inside and outside of the laboratory. The first part of the volume focuses on the basic science of false memory, revolving around three topics: old and new theoretical ideas that have been used to explain false memory and make predictions about it; research findings and predictions about false memory in normal adults; and research findings and predictions about age-related changes in false memory between early childhood and adulthood. Throughout Part I, Brainerd and Reyna emphasize how current opponent-processes conceptions of false memory act as a unifying influence by integrating predictions and data across disparate forms of false memory. The second part focuses on the applied science of false memory, revolving around four topics: the falsifiability of witnesses and suspects memories of crimes, including false confessions by suspects; the falsifiability of eyewitness identifications of suspects; false-memory reports in investigative interviews of child victims and witnesses, particularly in connection with sexual-abuse crimes; false memory in psychotherapy, including recovered memories of childhood abuse, multiple-personality disorders, and recovered memories of previous lives. Although Part II is concerned with applied research, Brainerd and Reyna continue to emphasize the unifying influence of opponent-processes conceptions of false memory. The third part focuses on emerging trends, revolving around three expanding areas of false-memory research: mathematical models, aging effects, and cognitive neuroscience. False Memory will be an invaluable resource for professional researchers, practitioners, and students in the many fields for which false-memory research has implications, including child-protective services, clinical psychology, law, criminal justice, elementary and secondary education, general medicine, journalism, and psychiatry.
