Repressed Memory Therapy - A New Form of Treatment

In the 1980s and early 1990s, hundreds of innocent people were wrongly accused of sexual violence under similar circumstances. In an effort to achieve coherence, our mind will sometimes invent false memories. By linking our present experiences with that imagined past, our mind allows us to maintain whatever meaning we already established. This process became so common that a name was introduced for it, False Memory Syndrome. It changed the way courtrooms operate. Thousands of therapists were sued and lost their licenses.