False Memory Syndrome
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Saturday October 20, 2007
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The therapy claims to “unlock” memories so painful the patient has blocked them out of their conscious mind rendering them retrievable only through dreams and hypnosis.
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Wednesday April 11, 2007
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People who believe they have lived past lives as, say, Indian princesses or battlefield commanders are more likely to make certain types of memory errors, according to a new study.
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Thursday October 12, 2006
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An Abbotsford, B.C., mother of seven is suing a Christian-based pastoral counselling service she says led her to falsely dredge up memories of sexual and satanic ritual abuse by her husband and others. In a statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Donna Marie Krahn, 46, says the Elijah House compromised her fitness and capacity to parent the children.
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Thursday July 6, 2006
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It seems that our memories are less than trustworthy, and Dutch experimental psychologist Elke Geraerts knows some impressive tricks of the trade for proving this: "We did an experiment with children, showing them pictures from when they were four years old. Some were true pictures but there were also fakes, doctored to show the child in a hot air balloon. And it was very easy [for the children] to get a false memory of being in this balloon." memories If a computer-manipulated image is all it takes to make children remember a hot air balloon trip that never happened, can verbal cues, or suggestions, lead to the "recovery" of traumatic false memories, such as ones of childhood abuse? Experimental psychologist Dr Geraerts, from the University of Maastricht, certainly thinks so, as her recent research suggests.
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Thursday April 6, 2006
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Elizabeth Loftus has studied the minds of scores of people, and learned that things aren't always as they appear.
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Saturday March 18, 2006
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BIRMINGHAM, AL — University of California-Irvine psychologist and renowned expert in memory and eyewitness testimony, Professor Elizabeth F. Loftus, Ph.D., will receive the 2006 Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prize from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
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Wednesday November 16, 2005
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Children and adolescents -- even adults for that matter -- may report with all sincerity that they had been sexually abused in the past or witnessed a murder or other crimes. But sometimes the person, though earnest, is wrong: The memory is a false one.
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Thursday October 20, 2005
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Lititz woman says she was harmed by her psychiatrist's techniques in bizarre malpractice case here.
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Sunday October 9, 2005
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When Ryan Ferguson’s defense attorneys go to court next week, they hope to clear their client of a first-degree murder charge by showing that human memory is not only unreliable but, in his case, wrong.
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Friday September 23, 2005
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Sleep paralysis, false memories involved
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Thursday July 28, 2005
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People want to end questioning, become convinced of guilt, research finds
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Thursday July 7, 2005
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A Sydney woman and her mother have successfully sued the state for prosecuting and jailing them over false molestation claims brought by their children.
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This is a transcript from PM. The program is broadcast around Australia at 5:10pm on Radio National and 6:10pm on ABC Local Radio.
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Wednesday June 22, 2005
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A leading psychologist long skeptical about 'repressed' recollections challenged a much-cited sex abuse claim. Scorn and litigation ensued.
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The nightmare began for Mary Mewes the day her only daughter, Robin, suddenly disappeared Sept. 15, 1990. It continued for 15 years, until last week, when Robin Mewes was finally found, safe and well.
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Thursday June 16, 2005
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Investigators find woman who vanished in 1990 at age 19 living under new identity
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Friday June 10, 2005
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Have you ever wished, while you were polishing off a pint of triple-chocolate gelato in the middle of the night, that an early childhood trauma had made you hate ice cream? Or that your mother had rewarded you for good behavior with spears of asparagus, thus making the consumption of green vegetables a positive experience associated with maternal affection and approval?
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Wednesday April 20, 2005
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BRENTWOOD - For Rhianna Light, it’s over.
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Wednesday April 6, 2005
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Renowned psychologist presents findings to university audience
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Wednesday March 16, 2005
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BRENTWOOD - The evidentiary hearing to determine whether Exeter resident Phillip Bourgelais will go to trial for allegedly sexually abusing his daughter Rhianna Light between the ages of 6 and 7 ended after a full day of rebuttals for both sides on Thursday.
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Tuesday March 8, 2005
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Research on the way people processed media reports about the Iraq war tells us more about how we create our beliefs and memories.
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Tuesday February 15, 2005
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Forget repressed memories for a moment.
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Monday November 22, 2004
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People who practise the controversial recovered-memory therapy may soon have to be registered by a professional board, amid concerns that some are unqualified and could cause harm.
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Thursday October 21, 2004
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EVANSTON, Ill. --- False memories are the controversial subject of hotly contested arguments about the validity of repressed memories that can surface years after a traumatic event and about the credibility of eyewitness accounts in criminal trials.
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Sunday October 10, 2004
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Startling research strikes at the core of criminal prosecution. Eye witnesses, even confessions, turn out to be unreliable. The detective surveyed the grim scene that had preempted his morning coffee - a 12-year-old girl's slim form sprawled in her bedroom doorway, brown hair still pulled into a neat pony tail, her jeans and purple T-shirt smeared with blood. He was steeling himself for the next step in the investigation: confronting his prime suspect.
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- Controversy is a constant for memory researcher
- Study: People Who Recall Past Lives, Alien Abduction Prone to Memory Errors
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- Study: False Memories Easily Implanted
- Alien abductees show real symptoms
- B.C. mother of seven sues faith-based counsellors
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