Recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse

Brandon, Sydney; Boakes, Janet; Glaser, Danya; Green, Richard

doi:10.1192/bjp.172.4.296

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“…A related issue in the case of sexual abuse is the issue of "recovered memories." Recovered memories refers to the "emergence of an apparent recollection of childhood sexual abuse of which the individual has no previous knowledge" [71]. The concern is that in some cases, these memories may be inaccurate, yet the individual strongly believes in them (the False Memory Syndrome) and in the possibility that the remembered events are causally related to their symptoms [71,72].…”

Section: Childhood Abuse and Fibromyalgiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of psychiatric disorders in fibromyalgia

McBeth

Silman

2001

Curr Rheumatol Rep

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The cardinal features of fibromyalgia are chronic widespread pain in the presence of widespread tenderness as measured by multiple tender points. Despite extensive investigations, the etiology of this syndrome remains unclear. Increased rates of psychiatric disorders, particularly depressive, anxiety, and somatoform disorders, are apparent in clinic populations. Epidemiologic evidence suggests that this is also true for community subjects. Depression, generalized psychological distress, and other psychological factors have been shown to be associated with the onset and persistence of fibromyalgia symptoms. However, the bodily processes through which such factors may lead to the onset of fibromyalgia are unclear. Recent investigations have demonstrated altered stress system responsiveness, most notably the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal stress axis, in patients with fibromyalgia. These findings, and one promising avenue for investigating the interaction between psychological and biological factors in the onset of chronic pain syndromes including fibromyalgia, are discussed.

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Section: Childhood Abuse and Fibromyalgiamentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of psychiatric disorders in fibromyalgia

McBeth

Silman

2001

Curr Rheumatol Rep

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“…Although many clinicians continue to believe that recovered memories in adult patients are valid, academic researchers have generally concluded that recovered memories are not supported by empirical data (e.g., Brandon et al, 1998;Crews, 1998;Kihlstrom, 1997;Loftus, 1993Loftus, , 1997Loftus & Polage, 1999;Ofshe & Watters, 1993;Pope & Hudson, 1995). In a recent comprehensive review of the literature, Brandon et al (1998) found that opinions have often been expressed with great conviction but without evidence; they concluded that there is a high probability that memories "recovered" after long periods of amnesia are false. Their conclusions formed the basis of the official report issued by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Great Britain in 1997.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Condemnation of a Scientific Article: A Chronology and Refutation of the Attacks and a Discussion of Threats to the Integrity of Science

Rind

Tromovitch

Bauserman³

2000

Sex Cult

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R o b e r t B a u s e r m a n Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State of MarylandOn July 12, 1999, our meta-analysis on child sexual abuse published in Psychological Bulletin, one of the American Psychological Association's (APA) premiere journals, was condemned by the U.S. Congress (H. Con. Res. 107).The condemnation followed months of attacks on the article, the APA, and us by various social conservatives and psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was asked by the APA to independently review our article. After considering criticisms of it and the article itself, AAAS declined, but commented that it was the criticisms, not our methods or analyses, that troubled them because these criticisms misrepresented what we wrote. The current article chronicles this whole affair. First, we provide background, explaining why an article such as ours was needed. Then we accurately summarize the article, given that it has been so widely misrepresented. Next we present a chronology of the events leading up to and following the condemnation. We then present and refute all the major criticisms of the article, which have included both methodological and conceptual attacks. Next we discuss the threat to science that these events portend. We conclude by discussing the need to separate moral judgments from scientific research, the conflation of which formed the basis for the distortions and condemnation.

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“…16 Long held beliefs that abreaction and verbalisation of traumatic memories are clinically helpful must now be balanced against a growing number of accounts of distress experienced by subjects required to 'recover memories' or 'relive trauma' by over-enthusiastic therapists. Brandon et al refer to a study of 26 cases of recovered memories of abuse from a Washington Victim Compensation Programme where the 'recovery' and abreaction had serious adverse effects for the patients in terms of suicidality, hospitalisation, self-mutilation and marriage break-up.…”

Section: Recovered Memoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%