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False Memory Syndrome
Organizations
False Memory Syndrome Facts Website
The International Society for the Study of Dissociation
The ISSD has issued a press release about the criminalization of the psychotherapeutic process, as evidenced by the
federal prosecution of Texas psychologist Judith Peterson.
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complaint was also investigated, per JCOAH guidelines, at the hospital level, and Dr. Peterson
was found to be without fault...[...]
Will any patient who is unhappy with the outcome of any form of therapy be
able to allege that purposeful criminal fraudulent therapy was performed and cause a therapist
to be indicted? Will the government now seek to imprison doctors treating patients who allege
Agent Orange exposure, Gulf War Syndrome, unknowing exposure to government radiation
testing, or other events that the government has not wished to acknowledge? Will mental
health providers risk jail time for treating those traumatized by combat activities that the
government prefers to deny?
-- October 29, 1997 Press Release, ISSD
The Sidran Foundation
is a publicly-supported, non-profit organization devoted to advocacy,
education, and research on behalf of people with psychiatric disabilities.
Among Sidran's many excellent resources is Science and Politics of Recovered Memories,
a 110-minute audiotape of the August 18, 1997, program of the same name presented at the annual meeting
of the American Psychological Association. It includes addresses by six panelists (all of whom have waived
royalties on the sales of this tape): Jennifer A. Hoult, Ross E. Cheit, Ph.D., Jennifer J. Freyd, Ph.D.,
David L. Calof, Ph.D., Anna Salter, Ph.D., and Laura S. Brown, Ph.D., ABPP. Convenor and Chair was
Gerald P. Koocher, Ph.D. Cost of the tape is $17.50 and it may be ordered online.
On this tape, Anna Salter, Ph.D. speaks to some of the dynamics of the backlash against survivors, something she terms as not a scientific fight, but a political one: "....People who deceive assume everyone deceives. 'The liar's punishment,' George Bernard Shaw wrote, 'is not in the least that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.'"
Sidran's website offers an informative online brochure about Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as "Multiple Personality Disorder"), as well as an excellent, hyperlinked PsychTrauma Glossary which is especially useful for sorting through the
sometimes confusing terminology used in discussions of trauma and memory.
See information about the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies pamphlet,
Childhood Trauma Remembered, in the Scientific Analysis section.
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Organizations Responding to 'False Memory Syndrome'