| Description | British Psychological Society report' on 'recovered memories' includes report, final draft, press release, press conference arrangements, reviews and cuttings as well as correspondence concerning the distribution of the report, post report outcomes e.g. training; reprints, press reporting (complaints to the PCC Press Complaints Commission) and responses to articles by Larry Weiskrantz (1926-2018) about the report, as well as 'Media and Expert Constructions of Risk' research project on the topic..
The report was written by a BPS Working Party which considered the scientific evidence concerning 'recovered memories of trauma, they reviewed the scientific literature, surveyed relevant members of the BPS (810 responses from Chartered Members) and took evidence from the British False Memory Society. The Working Party comprised: John Morton, Bernice Andrews, Debra Bekeria, Chris Bewin, Graham Davies and Phil Mollon. |
| AdminHistory | The British Psychological Society’s Working Party on Recovered Memories (WPRM) report was written in the context of an energetic public and professional debate. 'Hundreds of people were recovering memories of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), sometimes in therapies where it was believed that repressed or dissociated memories had to be recovered in order for the person to ‘heal’. Many of the people who recovered these memories confronted the person whom they remembered abusing them, and some cases ended up in the criminal courts with successful prosecutions. However, there were those who questioned whether all such memories should be accepted as accurate reflections of real events. It was argued that some, perhaps even most, of such recovered memories might in fact be false memories produced, at least in part, by the therapists themselves.' [The Psychologist Recovered and False Memories June 2006 pages 352-355] |
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