Freud and False Memory Syndrome

Download or read book Freud and False Memory Syndrome written by Phil Mollon and published by Totem Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since about 1992, an astonishingly fierce scientific professional and legal controversy has arisen around the allegation that psychotherapists may sometimes have fostered false memories of childhood sexual abuse. Some have blamed Freud for this, arguing that he sowed the seeds of false memory syndrome 100 years ago. He has been accused by some critics of abandoning, out of professional cowardice, his original recongition of the prevalence of sexual abuse amongst his patients, substituting his theory of childhood sexuality and the Oedipus complex, and by others of fabricating and implanting false memories of abuse in his patientes' minds.