During the 1990s there were a lot of cases of a reported child abuse based on repressed memory. Many individuals were arrested and jailed.
Many of those who were arrested, were accused of being abused and were jailed on the basis of repressed memories.
This post will investigate an article by Michael Humphrey called My lie: Why I falsely accused my father. This article’s main focus is on Meredith Maran and her story about false memory. Maran falsely accused her father of molestation in the 1980’s after she saw a feminist-inspired campaign to expose molesters (Humphrey, 2010).
Maran immersed herself into cases where abuse took place; she interviewed molesters and even observed family therapy sessions. Out of nowhere, she began having nightmares about a molestation of her own, and what was a great relationship with her father turned into horrible conversations and accusations.
Maran had nightmares for five years, and she convinced herself that her father had molested her. In the early 1990’s there was a movement of falsely accused fathers, and wrongly accused fathers were using their daughter’s therapists for introducing such horrible ideas of incest to females.
Although Maran's repressed memories were false, there were real cases of repressed memories. During the 1980s and 1990s tens of thousands of Americans, who were mostly women suddenly were overcome with repressed memories of sexual abuse as children, didn’t recover memories of those horrific events until decades later (Humphrey, 2010).
According to the article, as reports of molestation increase, individuals may create a scenario in their mind, that they too were molested. Individuals who have false memories such as Maran don't come out of nowhere with the visions of molestation, it’s more of a process than a single epiphany.
Maran never directly confronted her father, she withdrew from him, and in the years she spent away, she patched together the story and lined up the false evidence her mind came up with.
Maran was confused and thought about how it was possible that she could be dreaming of something so horrible that has never happened. While speaking with her doctor, he said a dream is a dream, and it’s not reality.
Maran immersed herself into the symptomatology of incest survivors that she thought she was one, and that could have been a cause of such horrible detailed dreams (Humphrey, 2010).
Source:
Humphrey, M. (2010, September 20). “My Lie”: Why I falsely accused my father. Retrieved May 03, 2014, from http://www.salon.com/2010/09/20/meredith_maran_my_lie_interview/
Many of those who were arrested, were accused of being abused and were jailed on the basis of repressed memories.
This post will investigate an article by Michael Humphrey called My lie: Why I falsely accused my father. This article’s main focus is on Meredith Maran and her story about false memory. Maran falsely accused her father of molestation in the 1980’s after she saw a feminist-inspired campaign to expose molesters (Humphrey, 2010).
Maran immersed herself into cases where abuse took place; she interviewed molesters and even observed family therapy sessions. Out of nowhere, she began having nightmares about a molestation of her own, and what was a great relationship with her father turned into horrible conversations and accusations.
Maran had nightmares for five years, and she convinced herself that her father had molested her. In the early 1990’s there was a movement of falsely accused fathers, and wrongly accused fathers were using their daughter’s therapists for introducing such horrible ideas of incest to females.
Although Maran's repressed memories were false, there were real cases of repressed memories. During the 1980s and 1990s tens of thousands of Americans, who were mostly women suddenly were overcome with repressed memories of sexual abuse as children, didn’t recover memories of those horrific events until decades later (Humphrey, 2010).
According to the article, as reports of molestation increase, individuals may create a scenario in their mind, that they too were molested. Individuals who have false memories such as Maran don't come out of nowhere with the visions of molestation, it’s more of a process than a single epiphany.
Maran never directly confronted her father, she withdrew from him, and in the years she spent away, she patched together the story and lined up the false evidence her mind came up with.
Maran was confused and thought about how it was possible that she could be dreaming of something so horrible that has never happened. While speaking with her doctor, he said a dream is a dream, and it’s not reality.
Maran immersed herself into the symptomatology of incest survivors that she thought she was one, and that could have been a cause of such horrible detailed dreams (Humphrey, 2010).
Source:
Humphrey, M. (2010, September 20). “My Lie”: Why I falsely accused my father. Retrieved May 03, 2014, from http://www.salon.com/2010/09/20/meredith_maran_my_lie_interview/
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