Nurses' views regarding false memory syndrome
✍ Scribed by Ruth Gallop; Wendy Austin; Elizabeth McCay; Margaret Bayer; Cindy Peternelj-Taylor
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 636 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-8228
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Knowledge concerning the storage and retrieval of traumatic memories and so-called False Memory Syndrome has not been widely available in nursing journals. Information in the popular media, however, means that nurses are learning about aspects of the memory debate from such sources. This article reports on 1,701 nurses' views of False Memory Syndrome (FMS). As background, this report reviews briefly current issues and research on traumatic memory retrieval. The majority of participants believed that FMS, although rare, could occur. For these nurses, FMS was a consequence of incompetent and unethical therapists. They worried that attention to FMS would silence or revictimize survivors of abuse.