False Memory Syndrome

• Society: Issues: Health: Mental Health: Memory Controversies  (24)

Book Examines Controversy Over Children's Testimony - Review of Jeopardy in the Courtroom, a book arguing that children are vulnerable to having their testimony and their memories distorted.

British False Memory Syndrome - News, legal information and events for people and professionals in contested accusations of abuse.

Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health - This organization recommends a scientific basis for the practice of medicine and mental health counseling. They also recommend informed consent for the mental health community.

Elizabeth Loftus - Biography and University of Washington faculty page for Loftus, including information on her books about the legal aspect of FMS, and articles on recovered memories.

False Memory Syndrome Foundation - News and informational site for FMSF, an organization that seeks to discover the reasons for the spread of FMS, to work for ways to prevent it, to aid those who were affected by it, and to bring their families into reconciliation.

Illinois-Wisconsin FMS Society - Support and networking for those hurt by recovered (or repressed) memory therapy. Includes news, articles, meeting calendar, and contacts information.

Institute for Psychological Therapies - Private practice of clinical psychology, offering Issues in Child Abuse Accusations and other online publications.

Memory Repression/Recovery Resources - Articles and resources providing research and information about repression and/or recovery of traumatic memories.

Parents Against Cruel Therapy (PACT) - Site focused on issue of young women who have entered therapy and have been led to falsely believe that they were sexually abused as a child. Articles and links.

Recovered Memory a Pandoras Box? - Shining the Light on the recovered memory deception of the psychotherapy cult. A pastor's view that therapy today has become a deceptive cult.

The Retractors Home Page - Information and links for Recovered Memory Survivors (Retractors) and their families.

Stop Bad Therapy - Personal accounts of retractors, legislative information, satire, the debunking of experts, and essays on recovered memories.