Editing Repressed memory (section)

=== Recovered memory therapy ===
{{Main|Recovered memory therapy}}
The term "recovered memory therapy" refers to the use of a range of [[psychotherapy]] methods that involve guiding the patient's attempts to recall memories of abuse that had previously been forgotten.<ref name="lief">{{cite journal | last = Lief | first = Harold I | name-list-style = vanc | date = November 1999 | title = Patients Versus Therapists: Legal Actions Over Recovered Memory Therapy | journal = Psychiatric Times | volume = XVI | issue = 11 | url = http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p991136.html | access-date = December 27, 2007 | archive-date = January 13, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080113205459/http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/p991136.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> The term "recovered memory therapy" is not listed in [[DSM-5]] nor is recovered memory therapy recommended by mainstream ethical and professional mental health associations.<ref name="underwager1">{{cite book | last1 = Underwager | first1 = Ralph | first2 = Hollida | last2 = Wakefield | name-list-style = vanc | author-link = Ralph Underwager | title = Return of the Furies: An Investigation into Recovered Memory Therapy |date=October 1994 | publisher = Open Court Pub Co | isbn = 978-0-8126-9271-6 | page = 360}}</ref> Critics of recovered memory therapy note that the therapy can create [[Confabulation|false memories]] through its use of powerful suggestion techniques.<ref name = Pezdek>{{cite journal | vauthors = Loftus EF, Pickrell JE | author-link1 = Elizabeth Loftus | year = 1995 | title = The formation of false memories | journal = Psychiatric Annals | volume = 25 | issue = 12 | url = http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/loftusmem1.pdf | pages = 720–725 | doi = 10.3928/0048-5713-19951201-07 | s2cid = 59286093 | access-date = April 12, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081203033217/http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/loftusmem1.pdf | archive-date = December 3, 2008 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name=pezdek1999>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pezdek K, Hodge D |date=July–August 1999 |title=Planting false childhood memories: The role of event plausibility |journal=Child Development |volume=70 |issue=4 |pages=887–895 |url=http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/bfaber/CSP502/2-Pezdek-1999.pdf |doi=10.1111/1467-8624.00064 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> It has also been found that patients who retract their claims—after deciding their recovered memories are false—may have [[post-traumatic stress disorder]] due to the trauma of illusory memories.<ref name=Lambert>{{cite web | vauthors = Lambert K, Lilienfeld SO | url = http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=4338D296-E7F2-99DF-3D7F5370B4FB5D10 | publisher = Scientific American | title = Brain Stains | date = October 1, 2007 | access-date = January 25, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071025085306/http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=4338D296-E7F2-99DF-3D7F5370B4FB5D10 | archive-date = October 25, 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref>