XPost: sci.psychology.psychotherapy, alt.psychology, sci.psychology   
   From: a@b.c   
      
   On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:10:28 -0800, dank  wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   What motivates you to assume that there is an epidemic of false memory   
   implantation (for which there is no evidence), rather than that there   
   is an epidemic of sexual abuse of children (for which there is vast   
   evidence, eg., the billions paid out to victims by the Catholic   
   church) that is being covered up by the abusers, who use false memory   
   syndrome as a cynical ploy to blame the victims?   
      
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