Adherents of both recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome claim studies, statistics and scientists on their side. In a position statement on techniques used to elicit memories of childhood ...

Others say the treatments actually generate false memories of events that never happened or tragically alter memories of events that did. The False Memory Syndrome Foundation, a group that says it ...

There has been, and continues to be, disagreement among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals regarding the reliability of repressed or recovered memories. Many ...

Often, the memory involves sexual abuse, sometimes at the hand of a family member. Some believe that putting a person under hypnosis can help them explore the possibility that they have repressed some ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

The filmmakers behind “Buried” say that the controversial repressed memories of Eileen Franklin, a California woman who claimed she suddenly remembered that her dad murdered her childhood playmate ...

Picture the Monopoly Man. Is he wearing a top hat? How about a monocle? The first is true, but if you imagined the board game mascot with fancy eyewear, you have experienced a false memory. False ...

BURIED Key Art. Photo credit: Courtesy of SHOWTIME. Buried, a riveting new docu-series airing now on Showtime, explores the conviction of George Franklin for the rape and murder of 8-year-old Susan ...

There were plenty of awful, horrifying things to come out of the Ghislaine Maxwell case. It turned my stomach listening to the way young girls were trafficked and abused. But another aspect of the ...

Jennifer H., a professional musician, was 23 when she sought help because she was having problems with sexual intimacy. While in therapy, she also began exploring the unexplained feelings of panic ...

The memory of the murder, buried in her mind for 20 years, came back in a flash. Eileen Franklin-Lipsker suddenly knew who had killed her childhood best friend, 8-year-old Susan Nason, who was ...