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300:"Did Daddy Really Do It? : A debate rages over incest-recovery therapies that can create false memories of sexual abuse : THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse, By Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham (St. Martin's Press: $ 22.95; 290 pp.) : MAKING MONSTERS: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria, By Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters (Scribner's: $ 23; 340 pp.)" 229:"Did Daddy Really Do It? : A debate rages over incest-recovery therapies that can create false memories of sexual abuse : THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse, By Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham (St. Martin's Press: $ 22.95; 290 pp.) : MAKING MONSTERS: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria, By Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters (Scribner's: $ 23; 340 pp.)" 163:
Butler concluded that while the book was a positive development for people who were falsely accused of sexual misconduct, she was afraid it would cause the formation of experts doubting sexual abuse victims and that it would "once again silence women and men from speaking--and being believed--about very real abuse".
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Butler argued that the book "persuasively" made its arguments. She stated that it does not "discuss many other cases that might contradict these books' central article of faith" and that the authors were "remarkably uninterested in the vagaries of memory of those who have sexually abused children."
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stated that the book was "the most thoroughgoing and powerful critique to date of the use of recovered memories in psychotherapy."
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Kihlstrom, John F. (1995-07-13). "Making Monsters: False memories, psychotherapy, and sexual hysteria".
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It makes use of various case studies, including the George Franklin case. The book does not mention the
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Leo, Richard A. (Summer 1997). "Review: The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory".
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Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, And Sexual Hysteria
Richard Ofshe
Ethan Watters
ISBN
9780684196985
Richard Ofshe
Ethan Watters
Scribner's
recovered memory
allegations of abuse by Satanic cults
Pulitzer Prize
University of California, Berkeley
Marilyn Van Derbur
Katy Butler
Los Angeles Times
John F. Kihlstrom
Yale University
New England Journal of Medicine
jeremiad
Publishers Weekly
The Myth of Repressed Memory
Spectral Evidence
False Memory Syndrome





Butler, Katy
"Did Daddy Really Do It? : A debate rages over incest-recovery therapies that can create false memories of sexual abuse : THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse, By Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham (St. Martin's Press: $ 22.95; 290 pp.) : MAKING MONSTERS: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria, By Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters (Scribner's: $ 23; 340 pp.)"

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