Stephanie Soo

FMSF and skeptics of recovered repressed memories, they say it was like a trend in the 90s.

A lot of people were recovering repressed memories.

A lot of high profile books came out at the time is what they argue.

you could just pick it up at the bookstore and they'll say, are you a survivor of incest?

Here's a checklist.

And they would include things like anxiety, depression, eating disorders.

And then that would make you feel like maybe I was.

They state that these books are the reason that people start believing that they were abused as a kid.

They would provide you step-by-step instruction guides, if you will, on how to recover such repressed memories.

Some would even encourage collaborative memory recall with one book reading.

Let yourself imagine.

Let yourself picture what might have happened to you.

Occasionally, you may need a small verbal push to get started.

Your guide may suggest some action that seems to arise naturally from the image that you are picturing.

Skeptics say that a lot of cases...

False memory implantation happens by way of, quote, suggesting things to people, guided imagination, you know, taking them through imagination exercises when they can't remember something, sexualized dream interpretation.

Oh, you have a dream of this?

Maybe it goes back to your childhood.

Hypnosis.

giving people books to read that advance the theory of repression, putting them in group therapy when they don't have any memories, and they listen to a lot of other people talk about childhood abuse, exposing them to other forms of suggestive psychotherapy.