Let’s look at Beth Moore’s “repressed memory” abuse story
<p>Her readers may not even know that Beth Moore’s accusation relies on <em>repressed </em>memories of childhood sexual abuse. This was a huge fascination of American culture of the 1990s.</p>
<p>Can people recall—typically in a therapy session—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 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/recovered-memory-therapy-mental-health.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">essay</a> in the <em>New York Times</em> by Ethan Watters, co-author of the 1994 book <em>Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria</em>, looks back:</p>
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