Crisis or Creation? A Systematic Examination of False Memory Syndrome

Dallam, Stephanie J.

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“…Attempts to explain why conflicts around child sexual abuse appear have become particularly vituperative and personal have focused on factors such as the adversarial nature of the legal system (Bruck, 1998;Whitfield, 2001), the polarizing effects of the media (Beckett, 1996;Whitfield, Silberg, & Fink, 2001), conflicting research paradigms and intra-and interdisciplinary turf and authority issues (Brown, 2004;Gaardner, 2000;Lyon and Koehler, 1998;Olafson, 2002), and gender politics (Brown, 2004;Dallam, 2001;Enns, McNeilly, Corkery, & Gilbert, 1995;Gaardner, 2000). For example, the gendered nature of the language that has been used to describe many issues related to child sexual abuse has been noted by a number of writers.…”

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“…Experts whose work has been used to support the alleged perpetrator in child sexual abuse cases have been accused of bias by those who suggest that they have entered the field to defend or cover up their own pedophilia or abuse of children, out of greed or a desire for fame or power, or because of a desire to protect male privilege or professional turf (Brown, 1996;Dallam, 2001;Gaardner, 2000;Olafson, 2002). In contrast, experts whose work has been used to support sexually abused children have been characterized as fanatic feminists who have been hurt by men (Olafson, 2002) or as wounded healers who are biased by their own histories of victimization, their antisexuality, their lack of scientific training, and their emotionality, irrationality, subjectivity, and paranoia (Campbell, 1998;Ceci & Hembrooke, 1998;Dawes, 1994;Gardner, 1991;Ofshe & Watters, 1994;Wakefield & Underwager, 1994).…”

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Can We Trust What They Say? Wounded Healers and Other Myths About Child Sexual Abuse Experts

Mildred

2010

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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The accusation that leading experts on issues related to child sexual abuse have entered the field in order to pursue personal agendas is one of several personal attacks used to undermine the credibility of the field's experts. Using qualitative data from indepth interviews, this article examines how 37 well-known authorities on child sexual abuse explain their own motivations for entering the field. In almost all cases, professional rather than personal factors appear to be the primary motivators for the experts' involvement. The article concludes that efforts to discredit child sexual abuse experts may be related to issues of gender and professional status.

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Can We Trust What They Say? Wounded Healers and Other Myths About Child Sexual Abuse Experts

Mildred

2010

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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“…Clinical experience shows that chronic, memory concerned, highly responsive (suggestible) and dissociative patients can benefit most from these techniques. The concern might arise that memory-focused therapeutic intervention, insofar as it involves implanting memories, acts like an iatrogenic syndrome, sometimes referred to as "false memory syndrome" (Dallam, 2002). It is therefore important to differentiate between the two.…”

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Memory Focused Interventions (MFI) as a Therapeutic Strategy in Hypnotic Psychotherapy

Meyerson¹

2010

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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The prospect of utilizing memory plasticity (the constructive and transitory nature of memory) for therapeutic purposes has not been widely recognized. However, a number of theoretical and clinical venues throughout the last century have shown its potential application. Intensive research conducted during these last decades, pointed out the possibility of influencing human memory in relation to new memories and their specific components. Moreover, the research showed the feasibility of planting alternative early childhood memories and thus altering memories of personal history. Additionally, researchers found that memory is naturally very fallible due to everyday phenomena of forgetfulness, distortion and intrusion of past and present information. Throughout the course of this paper, the integrative overview of these empirical findings with the aforementioned clinical and theoretical foundations serves as a substratum in an attempt to present an integrative therapeutic approach, named Memory Focused Interventions (MFI).

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“…Some commentators remain sceptical of the possibility that memories might be completely dissociated and then re-experienced. The postulation of false memory syndrome by an advocacy group for those accused of past sexual abuse has created ongoing controversy, although a review of the evidence for this syndrome suggests that it lacks general acceptance in the mental health field, and is based on faulty assumptions (Dallam 2002).…”

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‘I was raped by Santa Claus’: Responding to disclosures of sexual assault in mental health inpatient facilities

Ashmore¹,

Spangaro

McNamara³

2015

Int J Mental Health Nurs

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Sexual violence is significantly higher among those with mental illness than the rest of the population. The risk of sexual violence posed to patients during inpatient admissions is now also beginning to be recognized, but remains a challenging area of practice. This paper introduces a trauma-informed care approach for responding to disclosures of sexual violence by people with serious mental illness, taking into account the complexities of caring for individuals who might be unable to provide coherent accounts of assaults and/or who might be experiencing varying degrees of psychosis. A framework for understanding and responding to disclosures of sexual violence that occur in mental health facilities is described, recognizing that such disclosures take many forms, including plausible and implausible accounts of recent sexual violence, as well as disclosures of past abuse triggered by current traumatic experiences. Illustrated by case studies, the practice implications for each type of disclosure described in the framework are explored in relation to investigation, care planning, and prevention.

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Crisis or Creation? A Systematic Examination of False Memory Syndrome

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Can We Trust What They Say? Wounded Healers and Other Myths About Child Sexual Abuse Experts

Can We Trust What They Say? Wounded Healers and Other Myths About Child Sexual Abuse Experts

Memory Focused Interventions (MFI) as a Therapeutic Strategy in Hypnotic Psychotherapy

‘I was raped by Santa Claus’: Responding to disclosures of sexual assault in mental health inpatient facilities

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