The Myth of Repressed Memory Quotes

“According to the most outspoken and vituperative Skeptics, therapists specializing in recovered memory therapy operate in a neverland of fairy dust and mythic monsters. Woefully out of touch with modern research, engaging in “crude psychiatric analysis,” guilty of oversimplification, overextension, and “incestuous opinion citing,” these misguided, undertrained, and overzealous clinicians are implanting false memories in the minds of suggestible clients, making “therapeutic lifers” out of their patients and ripping families apart. This”
― Elizabeth F. Loftus, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse

“Perhaps the problem is with therapy itself: a profession that has become our new religion, offering quick and easy answers for life’s complex and essentially unanswerable problems. In its zeal to ameliorate our suffering, has therapy reduced all our problems to symptoms, equating suffering with abuse, and holding forth the false hope of redemption through the resurrection of lost innocence?”
― Elizabeth F. Loftus, The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse