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In article <93011.084750SASTPH@vm.sas.com> <SASTPH@vm.sas.com> writes:
>In article <C0M0r8.5I8@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca says:
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>Well, I'm as cynical as the next guy, but even I can't believe that the
>"survivors" adopt these "memories" for money.  It's much more likely
>that they really believe in what their therapist is telling them: that
>their current problems stem from horrible abuse when they were children.
>This is what sickened me about the PrimeTime report.
>One of the video segments showed a woman
>lying on a couch, clutching and tearing at a pillow as she screamed in
>terror, pain, and hate at the "memory" of being abused.  If in fact
>she was not suffering at the (however remote in
>time) hands of satanic abusers, then her therapist is the abuser.

I think we better be careful that we don't just begin a new witchhunt with
the therapists as target.  If these "memories" are not real, the therapist
may be unwittingly providing the opportunity for these people to fantasize,
but that doesn't necessarily mean they are "causing" the "memories".