Adherents of both recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome claim studies, statistics and scientists on their side. In a position statement on techniques used to elicit memories of childhood ...

Others say the treatments actually generate false memories of events that never happened or tragically alter memories of events that did. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation, a group that says it ...

In 1990, Eileen Franklin testified that she had witnessed her mother kill her childhood friend, but had repressed the memory for decades. On this evidence, the jury convicted George Franklin of ...

Repressed memories are memories that we unconsciously avoid thinking about, usually because of a traumatic experience. These memories are thought to be unconsciously blocked for several years and are ...

There has been, and continues to be, disagreement among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals regarding the reliability of repressed or recovered memories. Many ...

ALBANY - Repressed memory counseling continues to be active in the mid-valley, in spite of controversy over methods, results and validity. Former Albany resident Stephan Skotko has sued a Lebanon ...

The filmmakers behind “Buried” say that the controversial repressed memories of Eileen Franklin, a California woman who claimed she suddenly remembered that her dad murdered her childhood playmate ...

BURIED Key Art. Photo credit: Courtesy of SHOWTIME. Buried, a riveting new docu-series airing now on Showtime, explores the conviction of George Franklin for the rape and murder of 8-year-old Susan ...

There were plenty of awful, horrifying things to come out of the Ghislaine Maxwell case. It turned my stomach listening to the way young girls were trafficked and abused. But another aspect of the ...

Often, the memory involves sexual abuse, sometimes at the hand of a family member. Some believe that putting a person under hypnosis can help them explore the possibility that they have repressed some ...