(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Franklin in court in Redwood City in 1990, accused of the 1969 slaying of Susan Nason, 8. The accuser: his daughter, who ...

There has been, and continues to be, disagreement among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals regarding the reliability of repressed or recovered memories. Many ...

ALBANY - Repressed memory counseling continues to be active in the mid-valley, in spite of controversy over methods, results and validity. Former Albany resident Stephan Skotko has sued a Lebanon ...

"I like to think about memory as akin to a Wikipedia page. You can go in there and edit it. But so can other people." – Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, Buried Scene from "Buried" Source: Courtesy of SHOWTIME In ...

The idea of repressed memories was in many ways anti -Freudian, anathema to the orthodox Freudian view. But the explosion of interest in repressed memories was nonetheless a result of Freudianism–a ...

Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the central figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, was convicted after a 27-year-old man tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of ...

Lastly, there is the phenomenon of repressed memories. Years or even decades later an adult can suddenly remember terrible ...