Posted by JenStar on January 3, 2006, at 22:55:20
In reply to A new therapeutic technique!?, posted by fires on January 3, 2006, at 20:52:31
this is interesting, but also kind of scary to me. I'm not sure I'd want a false memory implanted, even if it helped me lose weight (which I sorely want and need to do!)
I don't like the idea of having false memories. Even though I'm sure that many of my "true" memories have been tainted by time and wishful thinking and creative past reconstruction and all that, I wouldn't want to deliberately put a false one in there!
But I do believe that many people come to believe false or incorrect things through the power of suggestion - their own and that of therapists, couselors, etc. This is probably a REALLY inflammatory thing to say, but I wonder what percentage of people who say they've been molested by a Catholic priest really WERE molested, and how many are making it up, and how many just THINK they were? But the truth is, I think -- that like alien abductions -- people are somehow getting false memories of events that may not have happened.
But this is interesting, Fires. I would like to read more on it.
thanks,
JenStar
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