Editing False memory syndrome (section)

=== Sexual abuse cases ===
The question of the accuracy and dependability of a [[repressed memory]] that someone has later recalled has contributed to some investigations and court cases, including cases of alleged [[sexual abuse]] or [[child sexual abuse]] (CSA).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.religioustolerance.org/rmt_reli.htm | title = Are Recovered Memories Reliable? | publisher = Religioustolerance.org | access-date = 2010-12-12 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604000440/http://www.religioustolerance.org/rmt_reli.htm |archive-date = 2011-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/loftus.htm | author = Colleen Born | title = Elizabeth Loftus | publisher = Muskingum.edu | access-date = 2010-12-12 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110108060632/http://www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/loftus.htm | archive-date = 2011-01-08 }}</ref>{{failed verification |reason = this is just an old copy of a uni profile page for loftus, not a suitable source for the claim|date=June 2023}}<ref>{{cite web| url = https://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/ | title = Recovered Memory Project: Case Archive, Commentary, and Scholarly Resources | publisher = Brown.edu | date = 1993-05-03 | access-date = 2010-12-12 }}</ref>  The research of Elizabeth Loftus has been used to counter claims of recovered memory in court<ref name = Wilson /> and it has resulted in stricter requirements for the use of recovered memories being used in trials, as well as a greater requirement for [[corroborating evidence]].  In addition, some U.S. states no longer allow prosecution based on recovered memory testimony.{{citation needed | reason=which states?|date=June 2023}} Insurance companies have become reluctant to insure therapists against malpractice suits relating to recovered memories.<ref name = Wilson /><ref name=Neimark>Neimark, J. (1996). The diva of disclosure, memory researcher Elizabeth Loftus. Psychology Today, 29, 48–53, 80.</ref><ref name=Saletan/>{{failed verification |reason = article never mentions anything about therapists' insurance|date=June 2023}}

Supporters of recovered memories argue that there is "overwhelming evidence that the mind is capable of repressing traumatic memories of child sexual abuse."<ref>{{Cite news| last = Murphy | first = W. | title = Debunking 'false memory'myths in sexual abuse cases | url = http://www.smith-lawfirm.com/Murphy_Memory_Article.html | access-date = 2008-01-10 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080107073650/http://www.smith-lawfirm.com/Murphy_Memory_Article.html |archive-date = 2008-01-07 }}</ref>{{failed verification |reason=this quotation is nowhere in the article, seems to combine bits from totally different sections|date=June 2023}} Whitfield states that the "false memory" defense is "seemingly sophisticated, but mostly contrived and often erroneous." He states that this defense has been created by "accused, convicted and self-confessed child molesters and their advocates" to try to "negate their abusive, criminal behavior."<ref>{{cite journal | last = Whitfield | first = C. |date=March 2002 | title = The "False Memory" Defense Using Disinformation and Junk Science In and Out of Court | journal = Journal of Child Sexual Abuse | volume = 9 | issue = 3/4 | pages = 53–78 | url = http://www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?sid=2LCRMC1PM7DN8N8PNL9M1A42WE7UFG4B&ID=7048 | access-date = 2008-01-11  | doi = 10.1300/J070v09n03_04 | s2cid = 24310658 | url-access = subscription }}</ref> Brown states that when pro-false memory expert witnesses and attorneys state there is no causal connection between CSA and adult psychopathology, that CSA doesn't cause specific trauma-related problems like borderline and dissociative identity disorder, that other variables than CSA can explain the variance of adult psychopathology and that the long-term effects of CSA are non-specific and general, that this testimony is inaccurate and has the potential of misleading juries.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Brown | first = D. | year = 2001 | title = (Mis)representation of the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Courts | journal =  Journal of Child Sexual Abuse | volume = 9 | issue = 3/4 | pages = 79–107 | url = http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ672709&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ672709 | access-date = 2008-01-28  | doi = 10.1300/J070v09n03_05 |pmid=17521992 | s2cid = 20874393 | url-access = subscription }}</ref>