Directory of Memory Controversies Resources

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• Abelard - The Myth of Repressed Memory

  http://www.abelard.org/briefings/repressed_memory.htm
  An article which examines the proposal that humans are highly suggestible and memory is very unreliable. Site offers contact information and links to related topics.

• Boards2Go: Recovered Memory Messageboards

  http://www.boards2go.com/boards/board.cgi?user=jehu
  An open discussion board predominantly anti-recovered memories therapy.

• Courage to Sue: A Parody of Psychotherapy

  http://members.tripod.com/~josiah2/courage.html
  A sardonic statement applying the principles found in Courage To Heal to the therapist rather than the patient.

• Male Survivors of Childhood Sex Abuse

  http://www.menweb.org/sexabupg.htm
  First-person account of recovered memories from Scott Barak Abraham.

• Memory and Reality

  http://www.fmsfonline.org/
  The official website of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Memory studies, retractor stories, legal information, newsletters, information on hypnosis, and a scientific focus are presented.

• Pseudoscience, Cross-examination, and Scientific Evidence in the Recovered Memory Controversy

  http://www.kspope.com/memory/repweb2a.php
  A white paper from the American Psychological Association journal "Psychology, Public Policy, and Law", examining the concept of recovered memories from a research perspective.

• Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse

  http://www.jimhopper.com/memory/
  Presents scientific research and scholarly resources addressing amnesia and delayed recall for memories of childhood sexual abuse.

• Recovered Memory Therapy

  http://www.religioustolerance.org/rmt.htm
  Description of repressed memories and recovered memory therapy from the point of view that it represents a therapy hoax.

• Science Daily | "I Tawt I Taw" A Bunny Wabbit At Disneyland: New Evidence Shows False Memories Can Be Created

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010612065657.htm
  Article describing an experiment where about one-third of the people who were exposed to a fake print advertisement that described a visit to Disneyland and how they met and shook hands with Bugs Bunny later said they remembered or knew the event happened to them.

• The Recovered Memory Project

  http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Taubman_Center/Recovmem/index.html
  An Internet-based research project which is gathering corroborated cases of recovered memories.

• Trauma & Cognitive Science Meeting

  http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/traumaconf.html
  Tapes available of scientific meeting covering the way in which trauma interacts with information processing. A particular focus will be on how traumatic information is encoded, stored, and later retrieved from memory.

• Treating Patients With Memories of Abuse : Legal Risk Management

  http://www.apa.org/books/4317960.html
  Written by Samuel J. Knapp and Leon VandeCreek, this book covers the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse--particularly patients who recover memories while in treatment. Order page.

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