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False memories: finding a balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Phil Mollon
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There can be few more agonising experiences than being falsely accused of having sexually abused one's child – except perhaps to be told that one's long-standing memories of childhood abuse are an example of false memory syndrome. People have been profoundly hurt both by false accusations of abuse and by false denials and dismissals of memories of abuse. Both of these can happen.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 4 , Issue 6 , November 1998, pp. 335 - 342
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

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