Today I fell down an Internet rabbit hole of articles and research on trauma, memory, and dissociative amnesia. And I'm kinda pissed. Until very recently, I thought that recovered memories were inaccurate, rare, and that there was no research supporting them. It turns out all that was False Memory Syndrome Foundation and assorted other miscreants' propaganda. It's hard to fine (because of the sheer amount of shit and spin thrown out), but it exists!
The Recovered Memory Project, by Brown University. Started because of a TV show claiming there was no case of recovered memories being corroborated, and an undergrad at Brown quickly found there was... just by searching for a few hours in databases. This site racks up a ton of instances of memories being corroborated, in court and out of it.
Trauma & Memory, by the The Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence. They're the source of that glorious
FMSF debunking I found a while back, but it turns out they're a goldmine of links to other research the FSMF, Parental Alienation Syndrome, and the creepy assholes involved in pushing such ideas.
Consider This, Skeptics of Recovered Memory, by Ross E. Cheit. (I can't find a free full copy online, and DESPERATELY want one.) An incredibly snarky takedown of Loftus and the philosophy of False Memory Syndrome. Turns out he also was someone whose recovered memories were corroborated by fellow victims.
Crook, L. (1995). Letter from Lynn Crook. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Vol. 4(2), 115-118.
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ljwrites , this might be of particular interest to you, since I know you're in the law field! One woman who's recovered memory testimony was corroborated and led to her father being found guilty was astounded to find she'd been used as a case study in a False Memory Syndrome book, claiming that her life was ruined by the court case and it was all made up. She sent a letter to a scientific journal pointing out just how many times her story was misrepresented and fabricated, all while the book's writer claimed that her memory was doing just that! Bonus attempts by the person she lambasts to force her into a Satanic Ritual Abuse mold.
I'm sure there'll be more, and I'll probably update this post a few times. Right now, I'm just still kind of floored that fifteen years of researching multi shit, and only NOW am I finally finding all this.
