... Memory Society, and F.A.C.T. (falsely accused carers and teachers) with the most prevalent being the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. The debate has focused the attention of memory researchers to examining the conditions under which memories are recovered; with a subsequent inquisition concerning possible suggestive influences of the therapist in the 'recovery' of such memories. As a result, the methods and practices of psychotherapists have been subject to scrutiny. Some psychotherapists have reacted to this scrutiny of their profession, branding it to be undermining the credibility of victims of repressed memories of abuse and therapists alike. Lawyers and medical practitioners have found reason to extensively deny the reality of child sex abuse finding support in the theory of the Oedipus complex in the infantile child, which advocates that young children often fantasise about engaging in sexual relations with their parents, thus providing psychological evidence that undermines the credibility of allegations of ...

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