Memory Wars

Resources & References

Resources and Articles that are Critical of the Repressed Memories Construct

  • False Memory Syndrome Foundation’s web site
  • The Reality of Repressed Memories, article appeared in 1993 in American Psychologist
  • RECOVERED MEMORIES: Are They Reliable?
  • Remembering Dangerously
  • Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  • How to Believe the Unbelievable
  • Make-believe memories
  • Memory Faults and Fixes
  • Articles by Loftus and colleagues
  • Memory’s Future
  • Misinformation and Memory: The Creation of New Memories

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Resources and Articles that Support the Repressed Memories Construct

  • Jennifer J. Freyd’s Home page
  • Pseudoscience, Cross-examination, and Scientific Evidence in the Recovered Memory Controversy
  • Recovered Memories
  • Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (JTD)
  • Memory, Abuse, and Science: Questioning Claims about the False Memory Syndrome Epidemic
  • Articles that support the concept of repressed memories
  • Lost in a Shopping Mall — A Breach of Professional Ethics
  • Logical Fallacies and Ethical Breaches

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Updates

  • Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory? How reliable is human memory? (NYT 2014)
  • Hypnosis, Recovered Memories, and False Memories
  • Thanks for the Repressed Memories: JUNK VS. SCIENCE IN THE PAUL SHANLEY TRIAL (2005)

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