XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.psychology, sci.psychology   
   From: dank@nugget.org   
      
   Hoofprints wrote...   
   > So IMHO, even if the CT. were to 'film the child and the therapist' who   
   > is attempting to 'elicit' the response, the groundwork for this type of   
   > lawsuit can be laid _well in advance_ through the home environment and   
   > training techniques.   
   > The 'child' who wants to 'please' the parent and get a 'reward', will   
   > indicate exactly where the other parent showed them to point.   
      
   McMartin was an example of false memories being implanted in children,   
   but often it is adults who are victims of this technique, and the   
   "recovered" memories are of being abused as a child.   
      
   I remember reading something about several experiments on how the   
   false memory technique works.  Apparently it is difficult to implant   
   a truly false memory, so an existing memory is isolated and then   
   suggestive questioning fills in details that never occurred.  One   
   subject was able to remember posing for a photo with Bugs Bunny at   
   Disneyland, while another subject had an innocent childhood memory   
   of taking a bath with a rubber ducky and had it modified so that   
   she remembered being molested by her father (which she knew was   
   false, but still found it deeply disturbing).  I assume the same   
   technique is used on "alien abduction" victims.   
      
   Finally, as DNA evidence clears so many prison and death row inmates,   
   it could be possible that their confessions weren't extracted through   
   physical torture, but rather that they were brainwashed to remember   
   details that police interrogators suggested.   
      
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