In 1990, a California man was convicted in a murder two decades old, based on his daughter's testimony that she abruptly recovered her memory of witnessing the murder. The entertainer Roseanne and a former Miss America say they now remember they were sexually abused as children, after forgetting it for years.
Therapists say they are uncovering an epidemic of abuse.
Families are torn apart, parents are jailed, and there has been at least one vigilante killing based on recovered memory. Welcome to the fascinating world of recovered memory therapy. In our enlightened age, we like to laugh at the follies and hysterias of the benighted past. This book reminds us that future generations will have plenty of reason to laugh at us. Slowly but convincingly, the authors build their case against RMT, discussing psychoanalytic theory in language accessible to the average reader.