Articles About Retractors

A List of Selected Magazine and Newspaper Articles About Retractors.

This is the fourth of five collections of retractor-related material. The titles include The Therapy, Reconciliation, Research about Retractors, Articles about Retractors (this section) and Legal Issues Pertaining to Retractors.

1992

"Traumatic Therapy" by Lynn Price Gondolf, Issues in Child Abuse Accusations 4(4) 239-245.

"False Memories of Child Sexual Abuse: A Personal Account" by Melody Gavigan, Issues in Child Abuse Accusations 4 (4) 246-247.

1993

April 6, 1993 "Memories of abuse: A recanter's tale," by Elizabeth Godley, San Francisco Examiner.

September 6, 1993 "Depressed / You must have been an abused child," Alberta Report.

September 12, 1993 "Haunted dreams: real or implanted?" by Mark Smith, Houston Chronicle.

July 1, 1993 "Two women sue psychiatrist, allege coercion," by Virginia Rybin, The Arizona Daily Star.

November 28, 1993 "Allegations of abuse recanted," by Betsy Rubiner, Des Moines Register.

November 28, 1993 "The feminist police tearing fathers and daughters apart," by Sharon Churcher, The Mail on Sunday.

1994

January 1994 "My Mother Abused Me, Didn't She? One woman's story of False Memory Syndrome," by Elizabeth Godley, Modern Woman.

February 27, 1994 "Seeking help and finding anguish," by Bill Ordine, Philadelphia Inquirer.

March 1994 "The Lost Daughter," by John Taylor, Esquire Magazine.

April 8, 1994 "Abuse backlash builds," by M.A.J. McKenna, Boston Herald.

Spring, 1994 "Misplaced trust: A first-person account of how my therapist created false memories," by Laura Pasley, The Skeptic.

October 16, 1994 "Ten Years After / The Legacy of Jordan," by Josephine Marcotty, Minneapolis Star Tribune.

December 4, 1994 "Memories that shatter lives: Patient's vivid imagination was encouraged to run wild," by Joe Salkowski, The Arizona Daily Star.

December 13, 1994 "Suit hits satanism memories," by Devorah Tedford, Houston Chronicle.

1995

1995 "First of All, Do No Harm:" A Recovered Memory Therapist Recants, by Mark Pendergrast, Skeptic, Vol.3 No. 4. PDF available, by permission of SKEPTIC Magazine.

January 20, 1995 "Counselor hit with another suit: Woman claims therapist planted 'false memories,'" by Brent Whiting, Arizona Republic.

February, 1995 "Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Christian Therapist Renounces Memory Repression," by Mark Pendergrast, Cornerstone.

April 6, 1995 "A retractor speaks," by Josephine Reynolds, LA Village View.

May 7, 1995 "Retractor recalls pain of finding memories were false," by Kathy Ricketts, Sunday Gazette.

May 18, 1995 "Jaffrey couple brings suit over malpractice," by Eric Poor, Monadnock Ledger.

May 21, 1995 "Memories almost split this family," by Steve Blow, Dallas Morning News.

June 22, 1995 "The Devil and Dr. Braun," by Matt Keenan, New City (Chicago).

August 25, 1995 "The Mirror Cracked," by Monika Bauerlein, City Page (TwinCities).

September 14, 1995 "Woman files lawsuit against Prairie View," by Bill Wilson, The Newton Kansan. (See also September 9, 1995 The Newton Kansan, "Woman files lawsuit against Prairie View.")

November 5, 1995 "False memories," by Eric Nalder, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

1996

February 23, 1996 "Patient Alleges Psychiatrist Planted Cult Ideas," by Pat Moore, Palm Beach Post.

May 20, 1996 "Recovering from a horror that never was," by Joanne Jacobs, San Jose Mercury News.

June 23, 1996 "When memories lie," by Ron Davis, Springfield News-Leader.

September 26, 1996 "How She Beat the Devil," by Maureen O'Hagan, Willamette Week.

December 26, 1996 "Ex-patient: Therapist planted false memories," Associated Press, Naples Daily News.

1997

February 9, 1997 "Appointment with the memory man," by Alasdair Palmer, The Sunday Telegraph.

February 27, 1997 "Hospital staff falsely made woman believe she was abused, lawsuit says," by Jennifer Gerrietts, Argus Leader.

March 4, 1997 "A Cool $2.4 million," by Doug Erickson and Andy Thompson, Post-Crescent.

April 13, 1997 "Memory therapy turns woman's life into nightmare," by Erin Hoover, The Sunday Oregonian.

May 22, 1997 "Why I falsely accused my parents," by Tana Hunter, Daily Telegraph.

August 1, 1997 "Jury awards $5.8 million in satanic memories case," by Mark Smith, Houston Chronicle. (See also August 9, 1997 "Family says therapists implanted 'false memories' of satanic abuse," and August 10 1997 "Family blames 'memories' of satanic abuse on therapists.")

October 22, 1997 "Bewitched," by Bob Young, Willamette Week.

December 4, 1997 "Ex-patient at county mental health complex files claim," by Gretchen Schuldt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

December 15, 1997 "Making up memories?" by Tiffany Danitz, Insight.

1998

March 19, 1998 "Lawsuit claims memories of abuse planted," by John O'Brien, The Post-Standard.

March 29, 1999 "Father, forgive me," by Margarette Driscoll, Sunday Times (UK).

August 13, 1998 "Woman sues psychiatrist, claiming tale of satanism," by Janet Kelley, Lancaster New Era.

June, 1998 "Dangerous Therapy," by Cynthia Hanson, Chicago Magazine.

July 12, 1998 "Unseen scars vex victims of false memory," by Ron Nissimov, Houston Chronicle.

1999

February 2, 1999 "Former UW-RF students sue psychologist. Case challenges repressed memories of abuse," by Judy Wiff, River Falls Journal.

April 4, 1999 "Malpractice suit settled; 8-week jury trial cancelled," by Judy Wiff, River Falls Journal.

October 14 - 20, 1999 "Cult of Madness," by Ann Zimmerman, Dallas Observer.

December 5, 1999 "Counseling leaves woman bereft," by Ted Wendling, The Plain Dealer.


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APA's "Questions and Answers about Memories of Childhood Abuse"