Delayed Recall of Trauma vs. “False Memories”

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.