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Fractured Families is a collection of powerful personal accounts of the devastation caused by false memories. The book also includes accounts from individuals who have accused their parents of unspeakable crimes only to later realise their allegations are unfounded - and who have had to come to terms with the tragic consequences. Fractured Families is a must-read for all academics and clinicians working in the field of psychology and psychiatry, child protection workers, including social workers, plus everyone in the criminal justice field, especially lawyers and the police. This book is also for any parent unfortunate enough to have been falsely accused. And, of course, for anyone undergoing some form of regression therapy in an attempt to uncover alleged "buried trauma".
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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If the message of 'Fractured Families' can be encapsulated in a single phrase it is that therapy and counselling should carry a government health warning. There is, undoubtedly, a widespread belief that therapy is a benign process that, at worst, may be ineffective but harmless and, at best, may provide the answer to problems we may experience in later life. This book provides an antidote to such simplistic, naïve and dangerous thinking. It is a book that every adult should read, if only to be prepared to make an informed choice should they ever decide to try therapy; more importantly so that they are mentally prepared should they be falsely accused of abuse on the basis of `memories' that someone - usually a family member - claims to have recovered while in therapy.
This book is also testimony to the intense suffering that accused adults experience when falsely accused of the most heinous of crimes sometimes followed by police investigation and exposure in the press. For they, the accused, do not have the defence of foreknowledge. That is why it needs to be widely read. The eighteen sets of parents whose stories are related in its pages know that they are innocent. Sometimes even the accusing children come to accept this truth. But this does not lessen the pain. By then the damage has been done. Parents are driven into depression and breakdown, even contemplating suicide. Lives are ruined and divorce may result. When the accuser realises what they have done, their lives too may be ruined; they suffer from a life-long sense of guilt, particularly if the accused parent has by then died. They may, themselves, become mental health casualties.
It is easy for those who have never suffered being falsely accused to say, `if you know you are innocent, why are you letting it affect you.' This book answers that question. The title `Fractured Families' could not be better chosen for, as one eminent psychologist said, `these are compound fractures that are never healed'.
`Fractured Families' is not only essential reading for every parent, aunt, uncle or adult sibling but also (perhaps, the more so) for psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and counsellors. For, while they continue to practise their highly dangerous and totally unproven theories on the unsuspecting public, the tragedies related in this book will continue to arise.
There are many psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, politicians and others in public life who share the above concerns. Some have contributed to the book. They include writer and broadcaster Anne Atkins and Professor Larry Weiskrantz, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, at the University of Oxford.
This book is also testimony to the intense suffering that accused adults experience when falsely accused of the most heinous of crimes sometimes followed by police investigation and exposure in the press. For they, the accused, do not have the defence of foreknowledge. That is why it needs to be widely read. The eighteen sets of parents whose stories are related in its pages know that they are innocent. Sometimes even the accusing children come to accept this truth. But this does not lessen the pain. By then the damage has been done. Parents are driven into depression and breakdown, even contemplating suicide. Lives are ruined and divorce may result. When the accuser realises what they have done, their lives too may be ruined; they suffer from a life-long sense of guilt, particularly if the accused parent has by then died. They may, themselves, become mental health casualties.
It is easy for those who have never suffered being falsely accused to say, `if you know you are innocent, why are you letting it affect you.' This book answers that question. The title `Fractured Families' could not be better chosen for, as one eminent psychologist said, `these are compound fractures that are never healed'.
`Fractured Families' is not only essential reading for every parent, aunt, uncle or adult sibling but also (perhaps, the more so) for psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and counsellors. For, while they continue to practise their highly dangerous and totally unproven theories on the unsuspecting public, the tragedies related in this book will continue to arise.
There are many psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, politicians and others in public life who share the above concerns. Some have contributed to the book. They include writer and broadcaster Anne Atkins and Professor Larry Weiskrantz, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, at the University of Oxford.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Before reading this book I had no knowledge of "recovered memory" and in fact no idea that such a thing existed. My children have all grown up and we are a quite ordinary family except perhaps that we probably meet up and communicate with each other more than many. The book therefore shocked me and I would simply not have thought that the situations recounted here were possible. However the stories ring true because they strain credulity to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine them being the product of someone's imagination.
Whereas the pain and injustice suffered by the subjects of recovered memory are truly harrowing, the book as a whole is uplifting. The individuals who are suddenly plunged into a nightmare situation from which there seems to be no escape, no reason, no logic and no support from any of the authorities involved, show a simple heroism, resilience and courage that demonstrates the resourcefulness that very ordinary people can sometimes summon to their aid.
Anyone interested in understanding how the innocent can suddenly face really quite incredible false accusations of the most awful sexual kind, should read this book.
Whereas the pain and injustice suffered by the subjects of recovered memory are truly harrowing, the book as a whole is uplifting. The individuals who are suddenly plunged into a nightmare situation from which there seems to be no escape, no reason, no logic and no support from any of the authorities involved, show a simple heroism, resilience and courage that demonstrates the resourcefulness that very ordinary people can sometimes summon to their aid.
Anyone interested in understanding how the innocent can suddenly face really quite incredible false accusations of the most awful sexual kind, should read this book.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Thank goodness someone has dealt with this issue. The damage caused by self-help books such as The Courage to Heal and bad therapy can be catastrophic. Being encouraged to 'remember' childhood sexual abuse which until reading self-help books and going into therapy was not even a concern or consideration is extremely damaging both to those seeking help but also their families.
Fractured Families deals with the real issues and highlights the resulting misery which the wrongly accused are subjected to.
My advice - read this book.
Fractured Families deals with the real issues and highlights the resulting misery which the wrongly accused are subjected to.
My advice - read this book.
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Science over Fiction
I was the victim of extremely traumatic sexual abuse both at home and outside of the home all facilitated by my parents. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sara Batterby
A book published by fantasists about fantasists-absurd!
I bought this book in order to gain some knowledge of exactly what "False Memory Syndrome" is. While I was already aware that the syndrome is not one listed in the diagnostic in... Read more
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