Can we always trust our own mind? | Professor Elizabeth Loftus on The fiction of memory (2018)

[@motucker44]

“....At the center of the backlash movement was an organization called the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF). Founded in 1992, FMSF was on its surface an “advocacy group” created by and for parents who’d been accused by their children of sexual abuse. The group’s supposed agenda was to provide support and fellowship to families that had been “destroyed” by accusations of incest. They launched a well-funded media campaign purporting the existence of an epidemic of “False Memory Syndrome” - not a scientifically researched condition, but rather a slogan concocted by accused parents to discredit the testimonies of their children. The campaign was highly effective, and the media eagerly gobbled it up. It eased the dissonance between an image of the “perfect American family” and an emerging consciousness of staggering rates of child sexual abuse (CSA) across the U.S. and worldwide.” “....Furthermore, FMSF members have gone on record to espouse the view that molestation is not significantly harmful to children. Elizabeth Loftus has been quoted as saying that child molestation is “not that big a deal,” and FMSF founding member Ralph Underwager was quoted in Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia as saying that sex with children is a “responsible choice for the individual.”...” WHAAAATTTT???

[@szymonbaranowski8184]

Wow!

[@Marianna-js3ji]

Who is Danny Strider? I once found this quote in the footnote of a book but I don't remember the title of the book: "If a victim embellishes her abuse by claiming satanic abuse it is false"

[@james-faulkner]

Please provide some context with the assertions you quoted. You gave neither sources or motivation for your post the only thing you said is "What?" as if you failed to grasp the idea of what you just quoted and I do not blame you. Hey, at least you did not put one of those yellow circles with it like the children do.

[@james-faulkner]

@@Marianna-js3ji "If a victim embellishes her abuse by claiming satanic abuse it is false" Because there is no such thing as a "satanic cult", especially in the modern era. The only claimed "Satanists" are atheists, they are a First Amendment protection group and the only true believers of Satan are by definition xtians. That whole "blame everything on satanists" craze in the Seventies and Eighties was done by xtians.

[@Marianna-js3ji]

@@james-faulkner What didn't she add?

[@AlexanderWeurding]

touche! "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

[@james-faulkner]

Incorrect. Fiction has no obligation for reality. That by definition is the term.

[@Anna_Czar_nas]

She brings up some good points. Its sad that the therapists, doctors, and other competent personal that thinks the opposite are isolating themselves.

[@sr2291]

Believe the victims. Do you know what it is like being told you have false memories or are making up abuse?

[@sr2291]

The levels to which people are willing to go to prove that SA never happened is astounding.

[@ahmedrabah1900]

How can we manifest memory in learning language,and is memory related to dream,and how memory works while sleeping.

[@juliareed9823]

This woman has been sued and discredited numerous times. Shame on you for letting her spread her bogus propaganda!

[@keithsonin]

Please post any links, sources, or any proof of your claims that Dr. Loftus has been discredited. Thanks.

[@Anna_Czar_nas]

Shame on these therapists making patients more ill because of suggestions. Shame on these people smearing the reputation of innocent people.

[@sr2291]

​@@Anna_Czar_nasWhat therapists? Name them.

[@jgibbs6159]

Idiot. She has not been discredited, in fact, her work from decades ago is just now being supported and recognized through new understandings of the cognitive process of memory. Secondly, and ironically, you said "Shame on you for letting her spread her bogus propaganda." Do you even know what propaganda means? Based on your statement, you are confusing it with disinformation - and they are two VERY different things. Propaganda is a cognitive process that shifts a person's perception of an issue from a practical one, to an emotional one. Propaganda is a complicated process of deception through alternative choices - ones that the target would be likely gravitate too because of social identity. Look up "the torches of freedom campaign" from 1929 to see one of the best examples of propaganda. Disinformation on the other hand, is the intentional act of providing information known to be false (i.e., lieing) to affect the perception; and through perception, the acts or thoughts of the target. Its not complicated, its just crude, unadulterated bad data, that is most effectual based on its repetition and source. If you had read Dr. Loftus' work, you would know the difference between them. You would also know she is not discredited - controversial sure - on some points - but which leading researcher hasn't been controversial at times? You should know she is one of the most accomplished memory researchers of our time, and her work goes far beyond the suppressed memory topic from the 90's that you are likely referring to.

[@Marianna-js3ji]

​@@Anna_Czar_nasTheir memories would be suggested memories and not real. There would be no background information attached to them.

[@chrismzumbwe]

Interested with your wounderful speech

[@ahmedrabah1900]

Is the .mind divided into rooms each room for certain me. Memory