Speaking for ourselves: unmasking the hidden agenda of the false memory controversy

Speaking for ourselves: unmasking the hidden agenda of the false memory controversy
Birrell, P.J., & Freyd, J.J. (2004) [book review] Ethics & Behavior, 14, 89-92. Full text: available on this site.

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What about Recovered Memories?

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Groomed for silence, groomed for betrayal
Veldhuis, C. B., & Freyd, J. J. (1999). In M. Rivera (Ed.), Fragment by Fragment: Feminist Perspectives on Memory and Child Sexual Abuse (pp. 253-282). Charlottetown, PEI Canada: Gynergy Books.

Full text: available on this site. .
Overview (paragraph from page 254): In this article, we seek to explore the relationships between language and memory in the context of childhood abuse. We will consider this language-memory relationship from various perspectives, including the role of societal responses to disclosures and, especially, the role of perpetrator communication on the victim's subsequent memory and processing of the event. We theorize that, in addition to victim motivations related to coping with betrayal trauma (that is, betrayal by someone close to them), certain patterns of communication within the perpetrator-victim relationship will have predictable effects on victim awareness and memory of the abuse -- and perhaps that the perpetrator can exploit these very dynamics to suppress the child's knowledge of the abuse.
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