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The Construction of False Memory Syndrome: The Experience of Retractors

The Construction of False Memory Syndrome: The Experience of Retractors More than 300 persons have now retracted charges of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) based on "memories" recovered in psychotherapy. How may we understand their experience? Four of the five retractors from a selected telephone area code were interviewed with a procedure that gave them different possible explanations for what had occurred. The accounts of the retractors and their critique of different explanations are presented. Two of the retractors appear to have been subjected to a sort of "mind control," and two others appear to have become imaginatively involved in a narrative that sewed a defensive purpose. In all cases, the experiences of the retractors appeared to be determined more by the therapeutic situation than by characteristics of their personalities. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Psychological Inquiry Taylor & Francis

The Construction of False Memory Syndrome: The Experience of Retractors

de Rivera, Joseph
Psychological Inquiry , Volume 8 (4): 22 – Dec 1, 1997
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10.1207/s15327965pli0804_1
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Abstract

More than 300 persons have now retracted charges of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) based on "memories" recovered in psychotherapy. How may we understand their experience? Four of the five retractors from a selected telephone area code were interviewed with a procedure that gave them different possible explanations for what had occurred. The accounts of the retractors and their critique of different explanations are presented. Two of the retractors appear to have been subjected to a sort of "mind control," and two others appear to have become imaginatively involved in a narrative that sewed a defensive purpose. In all cases, the experiences of the retractors appeared to be determined more by the therapeutic situation than by characteristics of their personalities.

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Psychological Inquiry – Taylor & Francis

Published: Dec 1, 1997

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