Please see the below descriptions and links for information related to delayed recall of trauma and false memories.
False memory defense is not backed by science!
- The summary of Israel’s supreme court decision to permit delayed memories of childhood abuse as evidence is located here.
- The scientifically based opinion about “recovered” or dissociated memories is located here.
- Scientific articles about recovered memory/traumatic memory/dissociative amnesia are available here.
- Trauma experts offer a science-based critique of the defense being put forward that women who have been sexually assaulted are supposedly remembering “false memories” here.
- See here for the story underlying the now defunct “False Memory Syndrome Foundation” including its history of receiving almost $8 million dollars from donors, many of whom were accused of having sexually abused children.