Victims of Memory: Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives (Paperback) by Mark Pendergrast (Author)

"There is no question that sexual abuse in America is far more prevalent than anyone was willing to admit just a decade ago..." Key Phrases: hunt for repressed memories, repressed incest memories, satanic ritual abuse cults, Victims of Memory, Ellen Bass, United States

"I found Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives fascinating, enraging, depressing, only sometimes uplifting. What is encouraging is the fact that, where courage and good sense and humility for a moment combine, people caught up in this monstrous charade that is destroying families can get themselves out of the chasm and re-discover a modicum of serenity. What is so depressing is the thought that this appears to happen rarely; because most - but by no means all - of the people responsible for this nonsense are acting in good faith, one is up against a quasi-religious fervour that is impervious to calm, reasoned argument. Patients themselves are obviously feeling rudderless on the seas of life, and vulnerable, and this makes them suggestible in the incapable hands of zealous psycho-missionaries. What a tragic social phenomenon. The tragedy also remains, apart from the shattered lives left behind by this "in-yer-face" movement, that it risks obscuring the plight of those genuinely abused. Read the book." - Amazon.com Customer

"Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives is an excellent book examining how and why some people come to believe that they have suffered appalling abuse that most probably never happened. The author shows how even trained professionals can disregard overwhelming evidence against a particular hypothesis (repressed memory/MPD/satanic cults) and rely on their intuition to (unintentionally) wreak havoc with their clients lives. In the upside-down world of some therapists, lack of hard evidence is trumped by strength of feeling for even the most outrageous accusation. Pendergrast demonstrates how uncertain and malleable human memory can be." - D. S. Joshi

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