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The Truth About False Memory Syndrome

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This is the most important book I ever read, in that it saved my life and took me from confusion and despair to understanding, empowerment, and healing.

I bought this book when I thought I was going crazy, and learned without a doubt that I am *not* crazy. This book refutes the propaganda of the False Memory Syndrome movement point by point, not responding with ridicule and propaganda and extreme examples in the face of like tactics from the FMS supporters, but instead giving clear, straightforward, scientific information so that the reader is empowered to think and understand and reach his or her own conclusion on the issue. The information about repression, dissociation, and how human memory works is fascinating, even while it brings the reader to a deeper, clearer understanding of such a confusing issue.

Everyone who is exposed to news media should have this information about memory.

Finally, his information and perspective on mental disorders caused by repressed or dissociated trauma was hugely helpful to me, giving me understanding and tools to heal when before I had only confusion and helpless despair. The final section of the book, containing interviews with survivors of extreme trauma, took all the intellectual information of the first sections and made it real and human.

FMSF is out to confuse people, make it harder for survivors of abuse to receive treatment, and make it acceptible for insurance companies to not pay for mental health benefits. Their claims are based on faulty research and bias. Learn the flaws of their "syndrome", learn the flaws of their research, learn to fight back with the research that proves true memories moreso than they've been able to prove false memories... This is especially important if you are a therapist or client who feels under-fire by the FMSF movement. You're not alone, you're not wrong to believe, and books like this can help you fight back, and stay sane!