1999
DOI: 10.1177/009318539902700310
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The False Litigant Syndrome: “Nobody Would Say That Unless it was the Truth”

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“…Suggestibility is an important dimension in the forensic contex [80][81][82]. Some investigators offer the possibility that retractorsdpatients who remember being abused in childhood and later retract those assertionsdare influenced by suggestive elements, first accusing a parent and then suing a therapist (gaining approval and sympathy for victim status at both stages) [82].…”
Section: Suggestibilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Suggestibility is an important dimension in the forensic contex [80][81][82]. Some investigators offer the possibility that retractorsdpatients who remember being abused in childhood and later retract those assertionsdare influenced by suggestive elements, first accusing a parent and then suing a therapist (gaining approval and sympathy for victim status at both stages) [82].…”
Section: Suggestibilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some investigators offer the possibility that retractorsdpatients who remember being abused in childhood and later retract those assertionsdare influenced by suggestive elements, first accusing a parent and then suing a therapist (gaining approval and sympathy for victim status at both stages) [82]. Currently, there are only two empirically developed measures of suggestibility: for adults, the Gudjonsson Scale of Interrogative Suggestibility [83], and for children, the newly developed Video Suggestibility Scale [84].…”
Section: Suggestibilitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, in a study of 30 malpractice law suits by retractors against their former therapists for "implanting false memories" or "implanting DID," Scheflin and Brown (1999) found that most of the 30 had recovered their memories and/or had the diagnosis of DID made before the sued therapist had seen them. There were many other kinds of direct and circumstantial evidence in these cases.…”
Section: Erroneously Try To Equate Retraction With "Proof" Of "False"mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In none of the 30 cases was there any mention or evidence of "recovered memory therapy" or a single-minded focus on recovering memories of abuse. Scheflin and Brown (1999) said, " . .…”
Section: Erroneously Try To Equate Retraction With "Proof" Of "False"mentioning
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