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Posts: 75 · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:43 pm

Dj I.C.U. wrote:

Writing exercises are frequently suggested to help recover memories. It is not unusual for a person to be urged to write non-stop, without regard for syntax and punctuation, on such topics as how the putative abuse occurred, and of factors in the father's childhood that may have predisposed him to the alleged pedophilia. In the accommodating environment of an approving therapist or a survivors' group, such a hastily written account of intimate details of a father's fantasized past may eventually become highly plausible and believable to the patient. Research by Elizabeth Loftus has demonstrated how the process of imagining an event inflates the likelihood of a person coming to believe it. (Loftus & Mazzoni, 1998)

After all of this, failure to "recover" the sought-after abuse memory is brushed aside with such assurances as: "If you are unable to remember any specific instances... but still have the feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did" (Bass & Davis, 1988, p. 21). And: "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were" (ibid, p. 22). Further: "If you don't remember your abuse you are not alone. Many women don't have memories and some never get memories. This doesn't mean they weren't abused" (ibid, p. 81).

In brief, some of the possible influences that may lead to false memories include a treatment based upon the theory of repression, the use of such procedures as hypnosis, guided imagery, dream interpretation, and sodium amytal represented as "truth serum," and the therapist urging the patient to cut off all contact with an accused parent who denies being an abuser. In addition, treatments that focus upon regression to infantile experiences, the emergence of multiple personality, the recollection of past lives and the experience of alien abduction are all at high risk to produce spurious autobiographical memories. The risk is increased when these techniques are used in a culture that frequently depicts the recovered memory stories in movies, books and TV.

A demoralized person may be particularly vulnerable to a subtly woven script that sees all human distempers as a consequence of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. It is conceivable that a person may develop such a scripted abuse memory without recourse to a hypnotic procedure. But from what we know about hypnosis, it is highly probable that a person exposed to some hypnotic technique will more readily and more confidently come to believe in that for which there is no evidence.

you rock dude!!! thats exactly what "well read" b@stards are doing in the society around them.

Posts: 4 · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:06 am

Unfortunately many therapists taught in a particular "school" of thinking tend to overlay their learnings and their own personal issues over the issues of their clients. This is very dangerous and can lead to great harm.

I implore anyone who is treating clients presenting with problems perceived to be in memory to deal only with memories that have strong emotional content with methods that can diffuse the emotional content. There are many ways of doing this including NLP based techniques.

Please please please never overlay your clients memory with crap that you have read in a book or have been taught as the most likely cause of a problem. Work only with what presents...... and NEVER judge your client or the people in their lives. Your client is unique and always has a unique mind. Treat it with respect and you will win over the unconscious mind.

Gary J
abra-melin.com

Posts: 25 · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:23 am

Imputting suggestions maybe, enough time so that it is believed that it actually took place.