Gemma Spike

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12,680 appearances 27 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Psychology of your 20s · 457. The psychology of 'false' memories · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

Could these awful and really extreme things have happened to so many people? matched

A lot of therapists said, yes, you should always believe the patient. matched

You have no idea what people have been through. matched

You have no idea how seemingly normal people could turn out really, really evil. matched

These things do happen. matched

Don't be naive. matched

the other half in this clinical space, in this discipline, were like, okay, well, what methods were used that allowed these people to suddenly access such intense memories? matched

What about in situations, particularly those very extreme situations, where somebody has said, you know, I saw my father murder and eat three people, or I saw my pastor sacrifice a baby, but there was no other evidence of that. matched

What about, you know, matched

people who recount these things and then later say hey actually that never happened of which a lot of people were doing en masse there was an amazing episode on this podcast episode on this by this american life called an epidemic created by doctors that is worth listening to and some of the people who got like stuck in the cross fire of this but this period is often referred to as the memory wars and it's really difficult to portray how many people this affected matched

There were some really insanely high-profile legal cases where people were accused by family members of doing just awful things, and they were charged, and then later the charges were completely dropped. matched

They found, actually, there was no evidence of this. matched

In 1994, there was a father who successfully sued his daughter's therapist after she accused him of abuse based on memories that had surfaced during therapy. matched

And the court found that basically the therapist had used all these suggestive methods. matched

Even the daughter now realized this stuff didn't happen. matched

And in response, there were these advocacy groups that formed on both sides. matched

Some support supporting, you know, survivors of abuse and emphasizing the reality of trauma and emphasizing the fact that people need to be believed. matched

And the other side representing people who were like, matched

I actually think that this therapist or therapists, multiple, have used really strange methods that have created memories that didn't actually happen to me. matched

For example, in a lot of these cases, therapists use tools like drug-induced hypnosis. matched

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