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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; False Memory Syndrome</title>
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		<title>GBP20,000 payout for woman who falsely accused her father of rape after &#8216;recovered memory&#8217; therapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Study: People Who Recall Past Lives, Alien Abduction Prone to Memory Errors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>B.C. mother of seven sues faith-based counsellors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 19:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Memories are made of&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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: &#8220;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories fail, and innocents can go to jail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Loftus has studied the minds of scores of people, and learned that things aren&#8217;t always as they appear.
Especially memories.
The California college professor has spent a quarter-century studying how easily memories can be planted and molded.
&#8220;It&#8217;s something that happens to us all the time,&#8221; Loftus said. &#8220;Little false memories don&#8217;t matter that much, but when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Renowned Memory Expert Named UAB Ireland Visiting Scholar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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).
Loftus will present a lecture, “Illusions of Memory,” at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, at the Alys Stephens Center’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book Explores the Field of False-Memory Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children and adolescents &#8212; even adults for that matter &#8212; 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.
Having false memories &#8212; &#8220;recalling&#8221; events that did not happen &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trances, satanic abuse&#8211;now a trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lititz woman says she was harmed by her psychiatrist&#8217;s techniques in bizarre malpractice case here.
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - It’s a scene straight out of the film “Rosemary’s Baby”: men in beast masks, candles flickering in dark cellars, chalices filled with blood and urine, rape by the devil and killing Satan’s baby by plunging a knife [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferguson defense taps memory researcher</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12434/ferguson-defense-taps-memory-researcher</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
The defense contends that Ferguson, 20, had nothing to do with the slaying four years ago of Tribune Sports Editor Kent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien abduction claims explained</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sleep paralysis, false memories involved
Many of the people who believe they have been abducted by aliens are bombarding Susan Clancy with hate e-mails and phone calls. The Harvard researcher, who has spent five years listening to the stories of some 50 abductees, has described her (and their) experiences in a new book to be published [...]]]></description>
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