Stephanie Soo

Or perhaps the problem is with therapy itself, a profession that has become our new religion, offering quick and easy answers for life's complex and essentially unanswerable problems.

She also states that sometimes people have this internal conflict about their childhood and to have these, quote unquote, false memories of clear-cut abuse would be easier to cope.

Quote, creating a fantasy of abuse with its relatively clear cut distinction between good and evil may provide the needed logical explanation for confusing experiences and feelings.

And one of her most well-known experiments that she still cites, even in the Harvey Weinstein trial in 2020,

is her very famous lost in a shopping mall experiment where she gathered a group of participants together and you had two people, two family members.

You had an older family member and a younger family member.

And the older family member is like, hey, remember that time you got lost in the shopping mall?

When you were like five and you're like, no, I didn't.

I never got lost in a shopping mall.

They were like, yeah, you did.

You were like freaking out.

You cried.

The whole family went to the shopping.

Oh my God, it was like a whole ordeal.

They're like, no, I never got lost in a shopping mall.

You don't remember?

They basically convinced them that they got lost in a shopping mall.

Out of 24 participants, six of them state that they either believe in it fully or believe in it half a little bit.

Exactly.

So she uses this experiment, and a lot of people actually use this experiment to say, in many cases, participants believe the false memory.