The accusations were based on memories extracted from people through a psychotherapy technique dubbed “RMT,” for recovered or repressed memory therapy. By the 1990s, many of the charges based on RMT ...
In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...
Repressed-memory therapy supposedly unearths buried memories of sexual abuse that occurred 20 or 30 years before. The therapy, which emerged in California in the late '80s, has spread across the ...