FMSF 1992 False Memory Syndrom

"You can't imagine how many calls I get from people with the same story as yours," the therapist told me on the phone during the summer of 1991. "Well, then, please have

Each of you has brought something special to our group. We are indebted to you all for making contact and for helping to reach

REQUEST FROM A FAMILY Are you or have you been involved in a

Are you or have you been involved in a lawsuit brought on the basis of recovery of repressed umemories?" We are being sued fly our daughter, and we would like to network

A Visit to the State Attorney General One of our Texas members asked us to share her experiences of going to the State Attorney General's office to gather information about

General is trying to get Licensed Professional Counselors to stop using "projective techniques." She found that therapists are supposed to have special training to use projective techniques such as hypnosis. She

Kenneth Lanning, the author of the excellent FBI publication, Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Rituaf' Child Abuse, January 1992, has asked if we would please stop calling the FBI for this booklet. Not only have they run out of copies,

Codependency Conspiracy by Dr. Stan Katz and Amiee Liu, New York.: Time Warner, 1991. What to Do when Psycho1herapy Goes Wrong by Shirley Siegel, Seaule,WA: Stop Abuse By Counselors

Friday March 20, 1992 7:00. 9:00 P.M. (free) MAGIC, MISCHIEF AND MEMORIES: REMEMBERING REPRESSED ABusE

REMEMBERING REPRESSED ABusE Saturday March 21, 1992 9:00A.M.· 4:00P.M. $10.00 Continuing Education Credit Available $40.00

Saturday March 21, 1992 9:00A.M.· 4:00P.M. $10.00 Continuing Education Credit Available $40.00

Our meeting, though comparatively small, was certainly informative. Including Michael Flomenhaft and Galen Kelly. Michael, an attorney, has apparently

As you will see from some preliminary swvey data that we share with you, as a group we are generally well-educated, above average economically, and over 50 years old. We span, however,

As you will see from some preliminary swvey data that we share with you, as a group we are generally well-educated, above average economically, and over 50 years old. We span, however, the religious, political, proressional and regional

Salisfaction with marriage in the 58 married Holly Wakefield and Pam are woridng together on the survey. Holly is looking at the psychological insttuments that are included and

Outreach to Professional Community, Research for Fact Sheets, Publicity, Newsletter, Fundraising. Saturday, April 25, 1992

Saturday, April 25, 1992 Benton harbor Michigan Holiday Inn - Holidome

The FBI has nm out of copies and funds to reprint, but we have permission to make copies. FM,s Foundation Newsletter

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Saturday, April25, 1992 Benton harbor Michigan

if you are in the Midwest. Several of you have asked about "body memories" because your children told you that

attadced Hors credlbDity, In expanded and grew more But experts, recctpllze thlt

ess than two weeks ago, Americans were spellbound before their television sets. watching Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas dash over their recollections of events a decade past. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearings are still

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Your new office is open. We are currently scheduling volunteers and as soon as we are prepared to handle the response, we will send out

Non-accusjog sjbl!ngs who believe accusatjons

Many of our children 10ld us 1ha1 they knew they were abused because of their adult symp10ms such as multiple personality disorder, eating disorders or ''postsexual abuse syndrome." The following three absttac1S present important evidence that such notions may be simplistic and in

QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ASKED How can my child say these things that are not

Call office if you need a map.

YOU'RE DYSFUNCTIONAL, by Wendy Kaminer, Addison-Wesley, 1992. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

by Wendy Kaminer, Addison-Wesley, 1992. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••

Your membership dues have gone a long way to get us up and running but our needs will continue to grow. If you know of anyone who would like to make a charitable donation -- perhaps your friends or

Northwest area CWasbjnetonl Meeting is being planned

If you can help with basic office assistance in mailing, telephone, filing, copying, etc., please send us your name, address and phone number or call the

Thursday evening June 25 Call Helen at 801-537-7401 for details Saturday, June 13, 1992

(N 17) iBcluded accusations of ritual abuse. "She had flashbacks seeing fa1her, mo1her, grandparents in hooded black robes. Blood letting, forcing her to drink blood and urine. Grandfa1her raped her while fa1her put penis in her mouth and grandmother and mothers

By: Hollida Wakefield and Ralph Underwager. 13200 Cannon City Boulevard, Northfield, MN

The Internal Revenue Service has sent us notice that our application for recognition as a publicly supported tax exempt public charity has been approved. Donors may deduct contributions to FMS Foundation (including contributions previously made). At the time that we applied for this status, we

I remember getting 1he phone call from my sister. I was working at a new job and ttying to adjust to the summer heat and being alone in a strange place. It was on a Sunday afternoon when she called and hit

Some of these are in response to our press release or to your letters to the media. Some have heard about us in other ways. There are reporters across the nation currently working on stories for papers and magazines. Television producers also call for information. As families are willing to appear,

become accepted simply from being repeated so often. A range between 6% and 62% tells us that we do not have any reliable information on the problem. (National Committee- add address) The Department of Health and Human Services

For example, families are learning about l1censlng regulations

and Oklahoma City, young women appeared and asked to have time to tell of their own experiences with memories recovered in therapy which they now believe were false. This is extremely helpful to parents in getting an under-

Parents tell us that this is the best book they

Sanrrday,August30, 1992 Many parents have asked about the ethiCal behavior of therapists who gtve their cllents a

if we do not have families the Courage to Heal book Because lhe Foundation has doubled in size since willing to !ell the other side.

At the same time, I was constantly beset by from 6% to 62% as is currently the case tells us that we doubts about my experience. It felt like I was do nOt even know the ..ball park" of sexual abuse statis"making it up" but it said in Courage to Heal that

listed in local paper.;. 2) Make a visit to the recovery section of a bookstore and

5) If you have access to CompuSCIVe, read the bulletin board devoted to sexual abuse issues. If you are an academic with access to the intemet. subscribe to the newsgroup "alt sexual.abuse.recovery." These are all revealing sources ofinsights into understanding the incest survivor movement.

learned to express for the so-called perpetrators and enablers made the abuse even more vivid in their minds. The abuse became the cemer of their lives, so the abuse is real. U it happened or not, the abuse Is now the most vivid

over theJr clients when they help them create memories and encourage them to act on the fabricated memories. When

Therapists who rely so heavily on rediscovered memodes do not take Into account the traditional scientific knowledge about mind and memory. Memory Is made up of fragments - often disjointed and contaminated - some

Therapists who rely so heavily on rediscovered memodes do not take Into account the traditional scientific knowledge about mind and memory. Memory Is made up of fragments - often disjointed and contaminated - some bright and sharp, others murky and vague. Many memories are additionally contaminated

A recanter: "I went to a

help you remember and heal. 1-800-xxx-xxxx. This ad which we r~d in the United Airline Magazine in July: went on to hst symptoms ".• MooD SWINGS • PANIC DISORDER • SUBSTANCE ABUSE • RAGE • FLASHBACK • DEPRESSION • HOPELESSNESS • ANXIEIT • PARANOIA • LowSELF ESTEEM • RELAPSE • RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS •

Do these examples indicate possible therapy bias? What do we know about therapists?

has come from a national survey of clinical and counsellng psychologists to be published in the journal Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. Some professionals indicated that this was positive. "Many experts see in the data a

HYPOTHESIS THAT CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE IS A RISK FACTOR FOR BULIMIA NERVOSA." Hanison & Hudson. 1992. '"Is childhood sexual abuse a risk factor for bulimia nervosa?", American Journal of Psychiatry 149:4

Hudson. 1992. '"Is childhood sexual abuse a risk factor for bulimia nervosa?", American Journal of Psychiatry 149:4 "As YET, THERE IS INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO

HAVE NO SIMPLE RELATIONSHIP." Martin & Elmer, 1992. "Battered children grown up: A follow-up srudy of individuals severely maltreated as children." Child Abuse

page "therapist survey:• Please help us by filling it out immediately with as much information as you now have. Even if you have sent us this information in a letter, we ask that you send it again on the enclosed form so that (1)

Researchers in education and cognitive science have made profound progress in the past decade in understanding how children learn. From a time in which we viewed children as passive vessels to be filled with adult wisdom.

nor the organization. but we were very interested to learn that some people consider MPD FMs Foundation Newsletter

We have secured spuce for the conference. A planning committee of the Advisory Board will be meeting in a few days to discuss the format and the selection of pupers. We will provide details as soon as we can.

Holiday Inn at Warden (Metropolitan Rd &: Hwy 401) For details please call 705-692-0600

Bebavioral Science Unit. National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia 22135.

Mulbem, Sherrill (1988) SATANISM AND PSYCHOTIIERAPY: A Rumor in Search of an Inquisition. In The SiJUJJiism Scare, Ricbardsoo, Bromely & Best (Eds.) 1991, pp. 145-172.

AGAINST PARENTS (In press, Behavioral Sciences and tlu! Law). Rogers, M. L. (1992). EVALUATING ADULTLmGANTS WHO AlLEGE INJURIES FROM CHILD SEXUAL

ABUSE: CUNICALASSESSMENT METHODS FOR TRAUMATIC MEMORIFS, To appear in Issues ill Child Abuse _$2.00 Daily Herald (ll..) by Barbara Winmer, Oct 7, 1992, PREsuMEDGun:r¥: WHEN' GROWN ClULDRBN

_$2.00 Daily Herald (ll..) by Barbara Winmer, Oct 7, 1992, PREsuMEDGun:r¥: WHEN' GROWN ClULDRBN ACCOST TIIEJR PARENTS.

_$2.00 Milwauk£e Journal, by Lois Blinghom. Sept 27, 1992. CHUDSEXUALABUSE: FALSE ACCUSATIONS CREATE ontER VICTIMS.

CREATE ontER VICTIMS. Rocky Mountain News- Series or 3 articles by Bill Scanlon, SepL 1992. SKEPTICS QUESTION

Rocky Mountain News- Series or 3 articles by Bill Scanlon, SepL 1992. SKEPTICS QUESTION MEMORIES OF INCEST; INCOMPETENT THERAPISTS TIJRN PATIENTS' PANTASIES INTO REPRESSED REAUI'Y,

SOME EXPERTS ARE SAYING. San Diego Union-Tribune - Series of 3 articles, Sept 1992 by Mark Saner and Jim Okerblom.

• Any person, Including a theraboggling that over 2,000 people have actually called to say that someone in pist, may unknowingly suggest their family has withdrawn contact because of acquiring

are able to remember how their problems staned in previous lives; other ''therapists" specialize in patients with memories of perfonning multiple satanic ritual murders. Dr. Pezdek wrote "However, even the name of the Foundation belies their objectivity; their primary agenda is to undennine the cred

Title: MEMORY AND REALITY: EMERGING CRISIS llile; Apri116-18, 1992 Location: Valley Forge PA Convention Center.