jaylar
False Memory, as I use it, is not that you recall wearing a yellow dress to a wedding when it was actually a blue dress, it is recalling something that Never Happened.
Unless you have a delusional mental disease, you do not produce false memories. You can misremember, such as the colour of a dress, but this is different from a False Memory in which you ‘remember’ attending a wedding you never did.
And the only reason you have this memory is because it was inserted by another.
Parents may tell a child a story and the child will believe it. Believe it so well, they can picture it.
Often, when a child gets older s/he may realise it was a story, or may not. At some point when it is revealed to be untrue, the ‘victim’ will accept it, maybe with hesitation, or annoyance, but there is no ‘vested interest’ in believing it.
The issue today with False Memory is not an accidental lie or mistake, it is the result of psycho analysis. It is the result of a therapist inserting a reason.
I suspect this might happen a lot with child abuse, in their telling their stories to therapists, but this is such a volatile subject, I guess, some things need to be followed up further, just in case they were true.
A lot of child abuse is invented. There was one massive case some years ago in which a classroom of children was told to say something against a particular teacher.
And of course sudden adult memories of childhood abuse.
Yes, sadly, that is true, I think too.
There are cases in which children have been imbued with false memories and unless there is evidence beyond any doubt, the adult is often branded as a pederist.
There was one case in which a man was accused of abusing a child and when the police came they found that he was paralysed from the neck down and had been for years so could not have abused the child two months ago.
That case alone certainly gives weight to what you are saying here!
Outstanding post I like it very much
Thank you so much for reading and commenting on my post.
Again, good to see your posts being published again.
Rather surprising, and published quickly.