-Caveat Lector- Below please find information on "New Research on Recovered Memories" Sincerely, Neil Brick excerpts from http://mentalhealth.miningco.com/health/mentalhealth/mentalhealth/library/week ly/aa040698.htm In this week's feature I will summarize a new Dutch study. Albach, Moorman, & Bermond from The Netherlands studied 97 adult victims of extreme sexual abuse who ranged in age from 18 to 55. 90% of the subjects had been abused for one year or longer. A control group of 65 women, matched for age and education, was studied as well. The control group reported on their memories of "ordinary unpleasant childhood experiences." The abuse survivors were broken into two groups. One group had participated in psychotherapy while the other group had not. This clever design allowed the authors to look carefully at whether psychotherapy had influenced the memory recovery process. 34% of the abuse survivors who had been in therapy reported an inability to recall the abuse at some point, while 33% of survivors who had not been in therapy reported such amnesia. Only 1% of the control group reported an inability to recall the unpleasant event. Similar patterns were found on other questions asked. The authors noted that Dutch therapists tend to focus much less on the importance of memory recovery than therapists in some other countries. They then studied what events seemed to be responsible for triggering the later recall of abuse. Subjects reported recovering memories after they discovered their own daughter had been abused, after another trauma occurred, and when confronted with specific sensory triggers during a time when they were "physically and emotionally exhausted." ... They reported that verbal cues were not as significant as olfactory, sensorimotor, auditory, and visual cues. The authors concluded that therapy was not a significant contributor to the recall of abuse in a majority of their Dutch patients. They found no significant differences in amnesia, memory recovery, or other memory phenomena between the survivors who participated in psychotherapy and those who did not. Their study supports earlier studies which have found that some amount of amnesia and later "recovered memory" often accompanies severe child abuse. DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
