False Memory Syndrome

Article that proposes that children are vulnerable to having their testimony and their memories distorted.

Private practice of clinical psychology, working primarily with cases involving accusations of sexual abuse, and also with a variety of other matters, including false and recovered memory cases.

Recovered-memory lawsuit is settled out of court. APA Monitor, September 1998. By B. Murray. A malpractice lawsuit alleging that a psychologist implanted false memories in her patient was settled out of court in late June.

Furthermore, it is possible to create false memories in people's minds by suggestion, even memories of previous lives which were never lived. Memory is so malleable that we should be very cautious in claiming certainty about any given memory without corroborative evidence.