“Recovered memories are created by therapists. Thousands of therapists are searching for ‘recovered memories.”
“Therapists create the circumstances that lead a patient to develop false beliefs ("memories").” - Allen Feld, in the FMSF Newsletter. [1]
“Therapists made patients with problems into victims. The most dramatic examples involved searching for sexual abuse as the repressed trauma.” - Loren Pankratz, in the FMSF Newsletter. [2]
“There are probably several million families who have been destroyed by recovered memory therapy” - Mark Pendergrast, at the FMSF Day of Contrition Conference. [3]
“My question, therefore: are some or all trauma-focused therapists sexual deviants or psychologically disturbed individuals? … It is in the interest of therapists to keep their patients trapped in their delusional worlds forever.” - August Piper, in the FMSF Newsletter. [4]
Refutation
Citations
[1] Feld, Allen. (2002, May/June). Responsibility. FMS Foundation Newsletter. 11(3), 8.
[2] Pankratz, Loren. (2001 November/December). Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. FMS Foundation Newsletter. 10(6), 9.
[3] Pendergrast, Mark. (1997, January 14). Don’t Demonize: A Message Of Compassion And Hope. [Conference Presentation]. Day of Contrition Revisited, Salem, MA, USA.
[4] Piper, August. (1996, February). A Special Delivery of some Food for Thought. FMS Foundation Newsletter. 5(2), 7.
[5] Elliott, D. M. (1997). Traumatic events: Prevalence and delayed recall in the general population. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 811-820.
[6] Williams, L. M. (1995). Recovered memories of abuse in women with documented child sexual victimization histories. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 649-673.
[7] Dalenberg, C. J. (1996). Accuracy, timing and circumstances of disclosure in therapy of recovered and continuous memories of abuse. Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 24(2), 229–275.
[8] Leavitt, F. (1999). Suggestibility and treatment as key variables in the recovered memory debate. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 17, 5-18.