Let’s look at Beth Moore’s “repressed memory” abuse story

<p>Her readers may not even know that Beth Moore&rsquo;s accusation relies on&nbsp;<em>repressed&nbsp;</em>memories of childhood sexual abuse. This was a huge fascination of American culture of the 1990s.</p> <p>Can people recall&mdash;typically in a therapy session&mdash;that they were abused as small children when they previously had no memory of it? There were some different views on that question.</p> <p>A 2022&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/recovered-memory-therapy-mental-health.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">essay</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;by Ethan Watters, co-author of the 1994 book&nbsp;<em>Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria</em>, looks back:</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/belover/did-beth-moore-make-up-her-sexual-abuse-74004442027b"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>