Valemuistoja Suomessa?

Loftusilta löytyy paljon asiaa epäpätevien traumaterapioiden ja hypnoosin regression käytön seuraamuksista. Rapakon takana meininki on liittynyt valetieteeseen, henkisellä hädällä rahastukseen, maallikkohypnoosinmutta myös kulttitaustaisiin oppeihin ja terapiayhteisöihin.

"Kultinomainen käyttäytyminen
Cult-like Behavior:

Following the diagnosis of repressed incest memories, with or without an MPD/DID diagnosis, a number of procedures may be employed that reinforce the belief that the diagnosis is correct. Clients are sometimes urged to stage an angry confrontation with the alleged abuser(s), not permitting him and/or her to refute the accusations. They may be advised to "get strong by suing" at the same time as being informed that "you are not responsible for proving that you were abused" (Bass & Davis, p. 137). (This may well be the worst legal advice of the millennium.)

Further, they are usually advised to break off all relations with the family and with anybody else who questions the abuse narrative.

In effect, this places the patient in a cult-like environment, since by following these instructions the patient is almost certain to be surrounded exclusively by like-thinking others and will not be exposed to a demurring voice. This effect may be magnified if the person follows another piece of advice -- to become involved in an incest survivors' group. For people who have yet to "recover" a memory of sexual abuse during childhood, this can increase the pressure to conform to group mores and to "remember" something that justifies their presence in such company.

This process has been documented by Nelson and Simpson (1994) in a study of 20 retractors. Of 14 respondents who developed visualizations of childhood sexual abuse during the course of group therapy, all but one reported that similar or identical memories were shared by other group members. Typical comments were: "We had very similar alters (MPD alter personalities) and memories. One woman would feel left out because she didn't have a particular alter everyone else had, and she wanted it" and "If you don't have a memory you feel like you have to come up with one to compete with everyone" (p. 126).

Suggestive Techniques: Another suggestion that may be given to the patient who has no abuse memories is to question the belief that her childhood was a happy time. The client is admonished to grieve for the happy childhood that did not actually occur, even though she may think that it did. In some books, hatred is advocated as a healing method, and fantasies of murder and castration of the alleged abuser are encouraged -- contrary to all reputable clinical belief and practice.

Writing exercises are frequently suggested to help recover memories. It is not unusual for a person to be urged to write non-stop, without regard for syntax and punctuation, on such topics as how the putative abuse occurred, and of factors in the father's childhood that may have predisposed him to the alleged pedophilia. In the accommodating environment of an approving therapist or a survivors' group, such a hastily written account of intimate details of a father's fantasized past may eventually become highly plausible and believable to the patient. Research by Elizabeth Loftus has demonstrated how the process of imagining an event inflates the likelihood of a person coming to believe it. (Loftus & Mazzoni, 1998)

After all of this, failure to "recover" the sought-after abuse memory is brushed aside with such assurances as: "If you are unable to remember any specific instances... but still have the feeling that something abusive happened to you, it probably did" (Bass & Davis, 1988, p. 21). And: "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were" (ibid, p. 22). Further: "If you don't remember your abuse you are not alone. Many women don't have memories and some never get memories. This doesn't mean they weren't abused" (ibid, p. 81).

In brief, some of the possible influences that may lead to false memories include a treatment based upon the theory of repression, the use of such procedures as hypnosis, guided imagery, dream interpretation, and sodium amytal represented as "truth serum," and the therapist urging the patient to cut off all contact with an accused parent who denies being an abuser. In addition, treatments that focus upon regression to infantile experiences, the emergence of multiple personality, the recollection of past lives and the experience of alien abduction are all at high risk to produce spurious autobiographical memories. The risk is increased when these techniques are used in a culture that frequently depicts the recovered memory stories in movies, books and TV.

A demoralized person may be particularly vulnerable to a subtly woven script that sees all human distempers as a consequence of repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. It is conceivable that a person may develop such a scripted abuse memory without recourse to a hypnotic procedure. But from what we know about hypnosis, it is highly probable that a person exposed to some hypnotic technique will more readily and more confidently come to believe in that for which there is no evidence."

näitä menneitä elämiä...minäkin joskus toisinaan käytän terapioissa.

suggeri

Hypnoosiliitto, jonka paljon puiduilla "listoilla" esiintyi vielä joku aika sitten Ameriikan lay hypnosisista tuttuja Hypnotherapist NGH-titteleitä, piti viime viikonloppuna MUISTO- JA REGRESSIOAIHEISET KOULUTUSPÄIVÄT. Kenelläkään palstan lukijoista tietoa luennoista? Mitä kerrottiin riskeistä ja oikeusturvaongelmista (poliisitutkinta, lastensuojelu), mitä muistiin vaikuttamiseen voi liittyä?

Muisti-, trauma- ja menneet elämät -hypnooseistahan on siis koitunut ongelmia USA:ssa. Oliko Hypnoosiliiton päivillä puhetta Suomen tilanteista???

Mitähän se amerikkalainen lay hypnosis mahtaa oikein ollakaan, kun sitä psykiatritkin siellä harrastavat. False memory foundationilla vaikuttaa todella olevan syytä huoleen, kun psykiatrit luovat vääriä? muistoja asiakkailleen omilla odotuksillaan.