"I encourage everyone to abandon the idea that psychiatrists know a great deal. I thought we should realize that we were working in a rather rudimentary medical discipline, one that has few natural correctives such as autopsy room or the laboratory to reveal its errors or restrain misguided enthusiasms. We should look closely at what we are claiming in order that that we might abandon what impedes and seize upon what advances our enterprises."
Paul R. McHugh, M.D.
Former Chair of Psychiatry at John's Hopkins
Many thousands of innocents have been harmed, lost careers and been imprisoned based on the false allegations that emerge from psuedomemories. Pseudomemories are false memories of events that never happened. They often emerge as a result of memory based therapy especially if the client is young, mentally ill or taking psychotropic medications. There are also "do it yourself therapy books" that guides readers in the same way as memory based therapists in "recovering past memories of traumatic events" that never happened. These false memories can significantly impact the client (or victim) especially if the client strongly believes that traumatic events always have an impact and that the pseudo-memory is historically accurate memory of some past event (when it is not).
Memory based therapy sessions often contain suggestive inquiry, intentional and unintentional planting and nurturing of the idea that some horrid event, long forgotten, is responsible for the present ills of the client. If a person finds that a false accusation has been leveled by an adult or child client then the immediate action should be to cease all therapy sessions with the current therapist (or counselor).
The reliance on psychoanalytical (memory based) approaches to therapy as a cure for mental illness and the resulting impaired judgments has done immense damage to society over the last century. Data increasingly suggests that we should discard the basic tenets of this errant approach. "Freudian Mannerism" is a term coined by Dr. Paul McHugh (former Chair of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins) describes memory based therapies in psychiatry (Note 1) that has dominated psychotherapy since the late 1800's. This approach has damaged our culture, torn families asunder and harmed both those who blame and those who are blamed for the mental illnesses that befall people. Evidenced based treatments are slowly eroding the influence of these outdated perspectives. In "The Broken Brain" Dr. Nancy Andreason (Chair of Psychiatry at the University of Iowa in Note 2) boldly claimed that biological pathologies alone underlie mental illness. She points out that somatic and cognitive therapies are the most effective ways to help those suffering from intellectual and emotional maladies.
Our culture has relied on psychoanalytical experts who claimed to be able to cure mental illness and impaired judgement with appropriate psychoanalytical techniques. Institutes with such treatments were created, served the public and consistently failed to manage or heal the mentally ill. Some of the institutions were corrupt themselves and found to be creating false memories, taking insurance money to help people with those false memories and creating more personal struggles for the suffering client. The faith in psychoanalytical approaches still remains and there are ardent believers but the evidence continues to mount. Treatments for trauma, for abuse, for addiction, for mental illness are relatively ineffective without parallel somatic treatment. In fact somatic treatment and talking with friends me be just as effective as somatic treatment with cognitive therapy..
Freudian mannerists used recovered-memory (1980s and ’90s) where clients were convinced by their therapist (or best-selling books on the subject) that their problems were caused by childhood abuse but were not consciously aware of these memories and labeled these as "repressed memories". It now seems bizarre to create imagined memories that are not there as an explanation for poor behavior but the idea was once popular. Dr. McNally, an expert in trauma and memory from Harvard, helped discredit the underlying theory that produced these types of false accusations thought to be real memories. “The notion that the mind protects itself by repressing or dissociating memories of trauma is a piece of psychiatric folklore devoid of convincing empirical support.” This errant memory based approach is still being used to create victims who were never victimized under new versions with new jargon that invokes words like "neurobiology", "trauma informed therapy" or "trauma induced fragmented memory" but all of them lack researched and verified mechanisms. Many therapists using memory based therapies still cling to these types of discredited assumptions. Many, including elderly parents, face adult children clients with psuedomemories generated in the bogus therapies and false accusations. The clients of such therapists may be both unaware that theses memories are false and come to believe the accusations themselves. These memory based therapies fail to serve the clients and fail to help families and society see the truth about these errant therapies and counseling techniques (that they harm the client and those around them).
The question arises "Why would anyone make up something so horrid as sexual child abuse? Reasons listed for those of sound mind are mentioned by accusers, accuser family members and investigators in a variety of texts (cited in brackets):
0. Because the the person has been to a memory based therapist who uses techniques that nurture false memories, produces trauma and insures dependency and income from the vulnerable client. Pseudomemories has been linked to a number of factors including hypnosis, trance like states (can be medicated), contextual variables, misleading post event information or suggestion , source monitoring errors, regression, stereotypes , instructional conditions, memory reprocessing , fantasy proneness, leading questions, search for confirmation of hunches and contagion. These reasons are summarized in an empirical meta-study by the Institute for Psychological Studies.
1. Because it explains why he or she cannot meet the modern social demand to manage careers, marriages, and children without the support of appropriate social programs. [ "Diagnosis for Disaster"Chapter 1]
2. Because it is a simple, neat explanation for a lifetime of turmoil and disappointment that has not been caused by any known or acknowledged trauma. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 1]
3. Because it provides a compelling and guilt-free reason for separating from family and ends those uncomfortable feelings of ambivalence. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 2]
4. Because it provides a sense of belonging and acceptance that he or she has been searching for all of his life. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 2]
5. Because someone in authority has said that belief is the only road to mental health. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 4]
6. Because no questioning of the treatment is allowed. The clients are judged not competent to decide whether their memories are true. Doubting is regarded as proof of their "denial" and resistance to getting well. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 4]
7. Because it is socially sanctioned excuse for escaping responsibility for one's own mistakes or failing to grow up emotionally. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 5]
8. Because he feels trapped, punished, and isolated in an inpatient program and believes he must play the "repressed memory game" in order to gain his freedom. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 5]
9. Because the therapist has used coercion and his or her aura of expertise to override the client's perceptions and convince the client that her memory can not be trusted. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 5]
10. Because many therapists have failed to study the history of psychiatric practices, theory and past grave errors; these therapists do not realize that they can be mistaken. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 8]
11. Because he or she finds focusing on a fantasy satanic abuse to be less painful than the mundane reality of parental neglect and emotional abandonment. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 9]
12. Because it provides one simple graspable reason for being unhappy when he or she "has it all." ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 10]
13. Because it's less painful to blame some-one else that to examine one's own personal failings and do all the arduous work of changing from within. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 11]
14. Because she has an un-diagnosed mental condition, such as post partem depression, that has impaired the adult child's judgement and made it difficult for here to accept appropriate help. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 12]
15. Because his or her unresolved and unconfronted conflicts with significant others have built up to a crisis level, and the adult child has an unconscious need to create distance until he or she can learn better conflict-resolution skills. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 13]
16. Because she has become isolated and depressed due to current life problems and an honored authority told her repressed memories of incest are a common cause of deep unhappiness. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 14]
17. Because the therapist/friend has no surviving family and would like to form a new family with a dependent client (or friend). This would match the description of the therapist and author of "Sybil" according to Dr. Nathan of "Sybil Exposed"
18. In order to extort money from parents by threatening the career(s) of the parent(s), refusing emotional contact and/or holding grand children and the family involved as "hostages" until monetary support is provided (often times to support drug or alcohol addictions). Discussed in "Myth of Repressed Memories"
19. Because the person seeks revenge for past perceived unjust actions or offenses unrelated to the accusations but provide a reason to create and nurture false memories as real. ("Innocence Isn't Enough")
20. Becasue the accuser wishes to gain advantage in custody cases during disputed divorces (Ashes to Ashes Family to Dust)
The question arises "Why would anyone make up something so horrid as sexual child abuse? Reasons listed for those of sound mind are mentioned by accusers, accuser family members and investigators in a variety of texts (cited in brackets):
0. Because the the person has been to a memory based therapist who uses techniques that nurture false memories, produces trauma and insures dependency and income from the vulnerable client. Pseudomemories has been linked to a number of factors including hypnosis, trance like states (can be medicated), contextual variables, misleading post event information or suggestion , source monitoring errors, regression, stereotypes , instructional conditions, memory reprocessing , fantasy proneness, leading questions, search for confirmation of hunches and contagion. These reasons are summarized in an empirical meta-study by the Institute for Psychological Studies.
1. Because it explains why he or she cannot meet the modern social demand to manage careers, marriages, and children without the support of appropriate social programs. [ "Diagnosis for Disaster"Chapter 1]
2. Because it is a simple, neat explanation for a lifetime of turmoil and disappointment that has not been caused by any known or acknowledged trauma. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 1]
3. Because it provides a compelling and guilt-free reason for separating from family and ends those uncomfortable feelings of ambivalence. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 2]
4. Because it provides a sense of belonging and acceptance that he or she has been searching for all of his life. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 2]
5. Because someone in authority has said that belief is the only road to mental health. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 4]
6. Because no questioning of the treatment is allowed. The clients are judged not competent to decide whether their memories are true. Doubting is regarded as proof of their "denial" and resistance to getting well. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 4]
7. Because it is socially sanctioned excuse for escaping responsibility for one's own mistakes or failing to grow up emotionally. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 5]
8. Because he feels trapped, punished, and isolated in an inpatient program and believes he must play the "repressed memory game" in order to gain his freedom. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 5]
9. Because the therapist has used coercion and his or her aura of expertise to override the client's perceptions and convince the client that her memory can not be trusted. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 5]
10. Because many therapists have failed to study the history of psychiatric practices, theory and past grave errors; these therapists do not realize that they can be mistaken. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 8]
11. Because he or she finds focusing on a fantasy satanic abuse to be less painful than the mundane reality of parental neglect and emotional abandonment. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 9]
12. Because it provides one simple graspable reason for being unhappy when he or she "has it all." ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 10]
13. Because it's less painful to blame some-one else that to examine one's own personal failings and do all the arduous work of changing from within. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 11]
14. Because she has an un-diagnosed mental condition, such as post partem depression, that has impaired the adult child's judgement and made it difficult for here to accept appropriate help. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 12]
15. Because his or her unresolved and unconfronted conflicts with significant others have built up to a crisis level, and the adult child has an unconscious need to create distance until he or she can learn better conflict-resolution skills. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 13]
16. Because she has become isolated and depressed due to current life problems and an honored authority told her repressed memories of incest are a common cause of deep unhappiness. ["Diagnosis for Disaster" Chapter 14]
17. Because the therapist/friend has no surviving family and would like to form a new family with a dependent client (or friend). This would match the description of the therapist and author of "Sybil" according to Dr. Nathan of "Sybil Exposed"
18. In order to extort money from parents by threatening the career(s) of the parent(s), refusing emotional contact and/or holding grand children and the family involved as "hostages" until monetary support is provided (often times to support drug or alcohol addictions). Discussed in "Myth of Repressed Memories"
19. Because the person seeks revenge for past perceived unjust actions or offenses unrelated to the accusations but provide a reason to create and nurture false memories as real. ("Innocence Isn't Enough")
20. Becasue the accuser wishes to gain advantage in custody cases during disputed divorces (Ashes to Ashes Family to Dust)
A mentally ill person may be overwhelmed by described abuses and the reasons planted and nurtured by a therapist or friend. In this type of situation the blame is focused on another person and that gives the client freedom from guilt for poor decision making in the past. The therapist or counselor is then seen as a benevolent person lifting the yoke of responsibility from the client. The problem is that the impaired judgments usually continue "despite the lifting of the yoke".
Data reveals memory therapy focused on uncovering of the wrongdoings of the parents or discovering some forgotten trauma (which are false memories) still result in continued impaired judgments, continued difficulties in life, eruption of psychosis and suicide. Things do not get better for the client. They get worse.
Advances in psychiatry continue to unfold to help us understand why these impaired judgments that lead to poor decisions. The idea that the mental illness has biological roots is often not a consideration because of the social determinism that guides much of our popular thinking. In the early 1900's it seemed like blaming impaired judgments on poor parenting and/or traumatic events was an improvement over blaming innate moral character, demons and evil possessions. Increasingly both psychological and medical science has been able to discredit the psychoanalytic approaches but it appears to me that many still cling to the widely held errant notions of social determinism (and Freudian mannerists Note 1). Treating the client who is mentally unstable with appropriate cognitive therapy and somatic techniques (medication) helps the client and helps the society. Treating a client with memory based psychoanalytical approaches can generate false memories, poor outcomes and estrangement from family has been found to be not just ineffective but harmful.
Data reveals memory therapy focused on uncovering of the wrongdoings of the parents or discovering some forgotten trauma (which are false memories) still result in continued impaired judgments, continued difficulties in life, eruption of psychosis and suicide. Things do not get better for the client. They get worse.
Advances in psychiatry continue to unfold to help us understand why these impaired judgments that lead to poor decisions. The idea that the mental illness has biological roots is often not a consideration because of the social determinism that guides much of our popular thinking. In the early 1900's it seemed like blaming impaired judgments on poor parenting and/or traumatic events was an improvement over blaming innate moral character, demons and evil possessions. Increasingly both psychological and medical science has been able to discredit the psychoanalytic approaches but it appears to me that many still cling to the widely held errant notions of social determinism (and Freudian mannerists Note 1). Treating the client who is mentally unstable with appropriate cognitive therapy and somatic techniques (medication) helps the client and helps the society. Treating a client with memory based psychoanalytical approaches can generate false memories, poor outcomes and estrangement from family has been found to be not just ineffective but harmful.
Free people take responsibility, become informed and avoid the blaming that memory based therapies rely on. An awareness of personal responsibility for one's health can help the person make better decisions, care for their body, care for their mind. care for their spiritual formation and live more freely.
1. https://truthaboutpseudomemories.blogspot.com/2018/11/book-review-try-to-remember.html
2. https://truthaboutpseudomemories.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-broken-brain-biological-revolution.html
2. https://truthaboutpseudomemories.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-broken-brain-biological-revolution.html
5. https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/priest-who-headed-clergy-addiction-center-going-jail-fraud
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VIDEOS ON MEMORY BASED THERAPIES
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NEWS ON MEMORY BASED THERAPIES
CLINICAL HEALING AND MEMORY
BOOKS ON MEMORY BASED THERAPIES
LEGAL CASES AND PRECEDENTS
HARMFUL PRAYER MINISTRY
PERSONAL "MEMORY HEALING" STORIES
VIDEOS ON MEMORY BASED THERAPIES
EXPERT LECTURES ON HARMFUL THERAPIES
NEWS ON MEMORY BASED THERAPIES
CLINICAL HEALING AND MEMORY
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*** WARNING ***
If you are seeking help for personal struggles and a therapist, counselor or friend says that "recovering childhood memories can help you get better" then IMMEDIATELY get up from your chair (or off the couch), run to the door, open it and flee. Hundreds of thousands have lost families, years of productive living and squandered immense wealth with tragedy inducing therapy that produces horrid false memories, splinters families, isolates the client and is documented to cause decline in mental health.
OUR DAUGHTER BEFORE TREATMENT
MEMORY EXPERTS COMMENT
DARK AGES OF MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
*** WARNING ***
If you are seeking help for personal struggles and a therapist, counselor or friend says that "recovering childhood memories can help you get better" then IMMEDIATELY get up from your chair (or off the couch), run to the door, open it and flee. Hundreds of thousands have lost families, years of productive living and squandered immense wealth with tragedy inducing therapy that produces horrid false memories, splinters families, isolates the client and is documented to cause decline in mental health.
OUR DAUGHTER BEFORE TREATMENT
MEMORY EXPERTS COMMENT
DARK AGES OF MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT
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