False Memory Syndrome

From MindControlForum Website F.M.S.F. EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS: Peter and Pamela Freyd (psychiatrists) The Freyds were publicly exposed by their own daughter – Jennifer Freyd (professor of psychology)…

(ISNS) - “Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events, ” said Albert Einstein. It is also deceptive because it is frequently wrong, sometimes dangerously so. Scientists at the…

Comments on my last post about therapy revealed some really lousy therapy experiences. Shocking even. And sad. For all my blind faith in therapy, I’m not blind to the fact that there are crappy…

Subjects exposed to lists of semantically related words falsely remember nonstudied words that are associated with the list items (e.g., Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). To determine…

In 1991, Charlotte Johnson dropped a bomb on her parents. She accused her father, Charles Johnson, of sexually abusing her. Two years later she accused her mother, Karen Johnson, of being complicit…

(1944 - ) The most horrifying idea is that what we believe with all our hearts is not necessarily the truth. (Loftus, 1996, AU:Neimark) Dr. Elizabeth F. Loftus, a professor of psychology and…

Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been relocated to another site…

False memory syndrome refers to a condition in which an individual experiences a false but strongly believed memory of a traumatic experience. Frequently, individuals who have experienced a traumatic…

Hey guys, fellow ocd sufferer here. I have with false memory ocd and it drives me crazy obviously.. Has anyone ever had a memory that was true but then a point in it didn t seem right? Like it…

It s tempting to think of our long-term memories as static and unchanging - but they re not. Memory is dynamic, often a blend of the original event and our current state of mind. Memories are…

Do you know someone who claims to remember their first day of kindergarten? Or a trip they took as a toddler? While some people may be able to recall trivial details from the past, laboratory…

Can a memory be forgotten and then remembered? Can a memory be suggested and then remembered as true? These questions lie at the heart of the memory of childhood abuse issue. Experts in the…

HYPNOSIS, even self-hypnosis, can sometimes result in the creation of false memories - the belief that something happened even though it never did. A psychologist at Ohio State University in…

The concept of a horrific memory being repressed by the brain only for it to dramatically re-surface later is a common plot device in modern movies and novels. However, the phenomenon of apparent…

Getty Images Every memory you ever had is in some respects a hallucination. You can see a scene, feel a feeling, even smell a smell at a time and in a context in which they didn’t occur at all…

The recovered memory debate has been the most acrimonious, vicious and hurtful internal controversy in the history of modern psychiatry. From its very beginning in the late 1980s, it has been…

As a follow-up to my previous post on Pure-O OCD, I thought it might be helpful to identify some obsessions that are commonly reported by individuals with Pure Obsessional OCD. These same obsessions…

In December 1995, two women filed ethics complaints with the American Psychological Association (APA) against Elizabeth Loftus, PhD, regarding her published statements about two legal cases involving…

The phenomenon of false memory has been well-documented: In many court cases, defendants have been found guilty based on testimony from witnesses and victims who were sure of their recollections…

Confabulation, Wernicke-Korsakoff’s syndrome and false memories Confabulation is sometimes called “honest lying” because the person telling the tale actually believes that it is true despite…

More and more people - mostly women - are being treated for Ritual Satanic Abuse (or what has later become the more reasonable-sounding Ritual Sexual Abuse. ) This abuse is usually discovered…

A determined team of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research has pulled off the impossible, instilling false memories in living animals, and in this case, sleeping…

How many letters have FMSF families written to Dr. Phil over the years asking him to explain that a person can truly believe that he or she has recovered-memories of abuse, but that those memories…

INTRODUCTION Most people experience distorted or false memories, often of long ago events, at some time or another. Indeed, psychologists have done thousands of studies showing ways in which…