RECONCILING False Memories

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There is controversy about whether memories can be totally forgotten, to resurface much later on to involve accusations of abuse against close family members.

The fact that there is such controversy, sometimes called 'memory wars', means a difference of opinion, suggesting that we don't know enough yet.

It means too that people caught up in this process are hurt or damaged.

If you were abused and have come to believe that you know what happened, where before you had little or no awareness of it, try the video or look at the blogsite above.

Perhaps, as close family members, you are thought to have committed abuses outside of your comprehension.

This video is about the work of Dr Paul Simpson, author of 'Second Thoughts', who was unhappy about the way he and other therapists had been working with these issues. He devised 'Project Middle Ground' to work with families caught up in the controversy, using a mediation approach.

Other authors and works are listed, some of which tend to support his views, and some written from differing perspectives.

Not only are 'experts' divided, but so too are families that once were close and now find irreparable damage has been caused through accusations of abuse, or confusion over memories and beliefs about what happened.

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• Dr Paul Simpson
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• recovered memory
• false memories
• abuse
• survivors
• mediation