The Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health
A detailed and meticulous essay about false memory published in the Pacific Standard.
September 2015
Are Therapy and False Memory Behind VIP Historic Abuse Claims?
Another lacerating article on the historic abuse investigations being pursued by the police. One of the central witnesses in Operation Midland has, according to Dominic Lawson writing in the Daily Mail, been revealed as ‘a man with a history of false claims.’ The Sunday Telegraph reported that ‘Darren’ had…
Police Child Abuse Investigations Undermining Justice
Charles Moore, in the Daily Telegraph, assesses the collapsing police investigations into historic child abuse. To what extent are the police prejudicing their own investigations when they start with the belief that all accusations are true?
Corruption of Justice
What has happened to the system of criminal justice in the United Kingdom?
Mindfulness May Make the Memory Less Accurate
Medical Xpress – the web based medical and health based news service – has produced an article on the surprising after-effects of practising mindfulness meditation, first popularised by Buddhism and now rapidly spreading throughout society.
The Misery of False Allegations
A report on the FACT (Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers) Spring Conference, held in May. Barbara Hewson looks at the background to false allegations – why they are made, and the part false memory can play in them. After lunch, the radio presenter and retired schoolmaster Simon Warr gave an electrifying…
The legacy of implanted Satanic abuse ‘memories’ is still causing damage today
When 21-year-old nurse Carol Felstead went to her doctor complaining of repeated headaches, she wasn’t just prescribed painkillers. Instead, she was referred for psychotherapy that would ultimately involve hypnosis to “recover” so-called repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. Carol subsequently came to believe that her parents were the leaders of…
Man’s Life Destroyed by the Sex Abuse Lies of a Woman he Never Met
Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Herman, Royal Marines (retired), is a man of old school charm and courtesy. It is easy to see why, while serving as a major in the Marines in 1971, he was seconded to Buckingham Palace to work as Equerry in Waiting to Prince Philip, and later as Private…
Memory and Hypnosis
An authoritative article from The Skeptical Enquirer. How memory can be changed, distorted or expanded by hypnosis. Hypnosis can bring out not only accurate memories but gross falsehoods as well. It is also an extremely powerful tool for implanting false memories into patients. Buffalo: Jul/Aug 2003.Vol.27, Iss. 4; pg. 40…