XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.psychology, sci.psychology   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   What motivates psychologists who hypnotize clients and brainwash   
   them by implanting false memories of childhood abuse?   
      
   Has anyone done a psychological profile on these sick persons?   
   Are they delusional and really believe the memories they implant   
   are authentic?  Were they molested themselves and believe they   
   are performing a public service by causing innocent people to be   
   accused of rape?  Do they simply enjoy the sense of power they   
   get from totally fucking with a person's sense of reality?   
      
   I can understand a UFO-believer brainwashing someone to remember   
   being abducted by aliens, but in those cases there isn't any   
   accusation of a heinous crime against a real person (the aliens   
   conducting the anal probe are imaginary).   
      
   Oh, and has any psychologist ever been convicted for causing a   
   client to file false charges based on an implanted memory?  What   
   is the law regarding this practice?  I remember that the McMartin   
   pre-school case ended in acquittal, but I don't remember any   
   charges ever being brought against the psychologists who   
   "interviewed" the children and assured prosecutors that their   
   wild tales of hot air balloons and giraffes were true.   
      
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