Nuggets from Occult Invasion

We are not suggesting that sexual abuse never occurs; it is all too prevalent. However, “memories” allegedly restored through hypnotherapy are almost certain to be false. “What really happened, happened in therapy,” says Sherrill Mulhern of the University of Paris, after an extensive study. As Columbia University psychiatrist Richard Gardner, author of Sex Abuse Hysteria, says, “It’s unlikely that a patient wouldn’t remember a traumatic event such as rape or forced intercourse. Amnesia is not a common thing in post-traumatic stress disorder. The opposite is the case: There’s a preoccupation with the event.”