The key was to insist. Sometimes by asking softly, sometimes more forcefully. But insist nonetheless. The first revelations would be hesitant, almost imperceptible. Then the terrible and shameful tales would pour out. And their parents, who tried to seem so proper in AUSL meetings, would be outed for what they really were. They called it “recovered memory therapy,” and it was widely used by psychologists at the Children’s Institute and the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect in the United States.
