Please continue to pray for a family member
who sought and received professional care
that failed to meet personal needs like thousands of others.
This professional care tragically victimized the entire family.
Severing relationships, separating cousins and
fostering mistrust among family members.
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An Investigation into Recovered Memory Therapy
by H. Wakefield and R. Underwager
pg 122:
"Accused parents try desperately to discover what is going on, push for specifics concerning the allegations, and attempt to meet with their child's therapist. These attempts are seldom successful. Most often, the accuser refuses to meet with her parents or discuss the situation ‘until you admit what you did.’ Brothers, sisters, nonaccused parents, and extended families members are caught in the middle. Often, all contact is severed. Families are destroyed.
When the accusing child eventually retracts the allegations, a major factor appears to be getting away from the therapy. Sometimes insurance runs out and the person is discharged from the program. A sibling or husband or wife may finally become skeptical (although most spouses support their husband’s or wife’s accusation) and encourage them to leave ‘Q therapy program that is not helping them. Persistent brothers and sisters appear to play a key role in persuading their accusing sibling to re-examine their newly discovered memories and the therapy that produced them. Occasionally, an individual simply begins to doubt her memories. This sometimes happens as a result of encountering the media attention to the FMS Foundation and false memories. Sometimes, a significant event such as a death, serious illness, or birth is a factor. But leaving the therapist appears to be necessary.Even with a retraction, the destruction to the parent-child relationship and to the family is unlikely to be readily healed: “An apology and a retraction does not end the family disruption caused by unvalidated accusations, the cruel confronting, the obsessive anger and the unilateral cutting off. It’s probably impossible to undo the countless divorces between parents when one is accused and the other not and between people with memories and their questioning spouses" (FMS Foundation Newsletter, May 3rd, 1993, p. 11)."
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Just prior to the descent on the trail leading
the the surface of Crater Lake in 2014!
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