Recovered memories strongly influence various subcultures; from conspiracy theories, to a belief in past lives, right through to alien abductions. So are they reliable? Psychologists claim they are not. They say the boundary between memory and fantasy is much more porous than we take it to be, and it is entirely possible to rebrand fantasy as memory, up to and including inventing entire chunks of our biographies. Meanwhile, some psychotherapists believe they are regressing clients to childhood, where they can recover long repressed memories of abuse, and that doing so is an essential part of a healing process. Do either of these possibilities sound even remotely plausible?

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Notes

Mark Pendergrast, Memory Warp: https://markpendergrast.com/ (I had trouble getting a copy of Memory Warp where I live, so I read Mark's older book: Victims of Memory).

Lilith Jean, YouTube channel containing multiple documentaries on False Memory: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuH7aAFMZ7g-WsSAoLq5_fg/videos

Elizabeth Loftus, Satanic Child Abuse Claims Are Based on False Memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSbcb3_QgsQ

Julia Shaw, Is Your Memory an Illusion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAeCKiM_4A

Also see Dr. Shaw’s book The Memory Illusion: https://www.drjuliashaw.com/thememoryillusion

Trance: Mind Control and Human Slavery - The Cathy O'Brien Story: https://odysee.com/@Harry_knowledge123:a/Trance-Mind-Control-and-Human-Slavery---The-Cathy-OBrien-Story-(2022-Full-Documentary):b