Edited sentence: Although there is no evidence whatsoever that FMS is an actual syndrome or condition, appeal for FMS due to effective marketing by its creators at a time when it was popular to demonize the field of psychotherapy appealed to the popular press.For many, the acceptance of dissociation as a valid symptom or condition would seem to thereby validate the reality of widespread child abuse.Much of the impetus for challenging dissociation and multiple personality stemmed from the efforts, in the 1980s, of a small but vocal group of parents who had been accused of abusing their children.The notion that a therapist "plants" false memories in a patient continues to seem a more acceptable cause for a patient's distress than the possibility that their reports of severe and unrelenting abuse are in fact true.These parents banded together in an effort to defend themselves by theorizing a new syndrome, the "False Memory Syndrome (FMS)," that asserts therapists somehow suggested abuse and dissociation to their patient (who was usually the adult child accusing her/his parent of abuse)