Article Summary - original draft

docx

School

American Public University *

*We aren’t endorsed by this school

Course

PSYC500

Subject

Psychology

Date

Feb 20, 2024

Type

docx

Pages

Uploaded by Wendigo54

Running head: ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 1 Article Review – Should False Memory Syndrome be a Medical Diagnosis, or is More Research Needed? Michael Edgette Orientation to Graduate Learning in Psychology/PSYC500 February ,2018

ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 2 Abstract False memory syndrome

ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 3 False Memory Syndrome (FMS) is a mental disorder, and is a highly controversial mental disorder at that. What makes this article interesting, is what the researcher was looking to find, while researching and writing about FMS. The research surrounded itself around questions that are useful for the evidence being established, and the validity of the claims being made about FMS. The second part of the research proposed the scholarly examination of the process, reveling the influences in which the claims are examined. Review of an article about False Memory Syndrome is completed, along with how the syndrome can become a mental disorder, and what future research is required to promote it as a mental disorder. The syndrome is not mentioned in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or Mental Disorders. However, the False Memory Syndrome Foundation was formed in 1992 to study the problem of traumatic events occurring in childhood, that were once were repressed are now starting to be claimed (Early history of the false memory syndrome foundation, n.d.). Furthermore, the definition of FMS is considered a condition a person has when they are providing a false narrative of events surrounding a memory of a traumatic experience, in which the person believes to be true (Pope, 1996, p. 959). What all of this means, and why it is so important to be considered a possible mental disorder? In the news lately, there has been a lot of accusations pertaining to individuals being sexually assaulted or harassed by their co-stars, movie producers, politicians, and many more. In the 1990s when the FMSF was started, many parents were being accused of incest. Not related to each other, but similar in what was happening. In the article, “Memory, Abuse, and Science,” written by Kenneth Pope, many views were written about. One such thing was how a literature search found a history of memory theory prior to FMSF and FMS becoming a large issue. What was found was how researchers were trying to understand how an individual’s memory could be

Your preview ends here

Eager to read complete document? Join bartleby learn and gain access to the full version

Access to all documents
Unlimited textbook solutions
24/7 expert homework help

ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 4 altered (Pope, 1996, p. 958). Our minds do not take the information, being received, and store in in perfect condition, in which we received it. Unfortunately for all of us, we do not remember things precisely as we lived it. The mind is not a large storage bin, or a blank slate, it always taking in information, and then transforms it into a memory. The memory stored, has a lot of holes in it, however, traumatic events are remembered better, and is verified by one of the FMSF board members (Pope, 1996, p. 959). This brings up the point of the methodologies used in determining which memories are free of errors, or are objectively false. Psychiatrists advising the FMSF are in agreement, trauma patients and those patients who experiences the atrocities of childhood sexual abuse cannot repress memories (Pope, 1996, p. 959). Therefore, criteria must be standardized, showing who is giving false statements and those who are telling something properly, diminishing the possibility of a false memory. Assertions have been made about parents committing incest acts on their children, as FMS was started from. One criterion to help decipher the validity of a patient’s statement is how they react during the statement (Pope, 1996, p. 960). The second criterion suggested, was to use a representative sample of families, that is to examine the person who has been accused. If they have never had any pedophile tendencies, or no sexual interest in children (Pope, 1996, p. 960). FMS was started from repressed memories, about adults, especially parents who had supposedly sexually abused their child. The repressed memories were brought forward from therapists who have stated that the memories were repressed, because of the traumatic event. Therapy bringing out repressed memories, or is it psychotherapy out of control, and the psychotherapists are implanting the memories? This also brings the next question, does the individual accusing someone of sexual assault, have additional psychopathologies, from earlier

ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 5 parts of their life (Pope, 1996, p. 961)? A large number of FMS cases have been documented, and is reaching an epidemic. This places a burden on therapists to do more than just making an assumption of repressed memories. As this seems to be part of the larger issue with FMS. Therapists are using coercive techniques, with at least 25% of them using the risky techniques, leading some of their patients to believe that the false memories are real memories (Pope, 1996, p. 964). Because it is hard to determine if the memories of another individual are true or false, there are some lessons to be learned and used in future consideration of False Memory Syndrome as a mental disorder, although at the present time, FMS is not considered a mental disorder, and is not listed in the DSM. There are a few suggestions in the literature, to explain the possibilities of defining FMS as a mental disorder; however, research is still warranted to determine if it can have standing in the mental health care environment. One suggestion is to confirm the validity of the statements being made by the patient are true. External validation has to be sought out (Pope, 1996, p. 966). This would be from interviewing family, friends and other acquaintances of the accused and the accuser. New therapy techniques need to be reviewed and established, when a patient is reviewing childhood events that surround possible sexual abuse incidents. Therapists need to review their diagnosis, as it is possible the patient could have a personality disorder. Furthermore, the therapist has to eliminate confirmation bias, and the possibility of implanting false memories in a patient who is easily impressed by the therapist’s suggestions and comments. Finally, research hypotheses must be explored to this phenomenon. Most of us have been part of the experiment where one person is told a story, then they tell the next person, and then that person tells the next. Until everyone in the room has been told the story, and it has changed. One such hypothesis could take the above experiment and twist it to how easily a person can be

ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 6 persuaded to believe something that has not happened to something that had happened. Like, being in an automobile accident, or eating a particular meal. Therefore, each new research can go from that starting point, to see who is most susceptible to being persuaded to thinking they lived an event, when they actually did not.

Your preview ends here

Eager to read complete document? Join bartleby learn and gain access to the full version

Access to all documents
Unlimited textbook solutions
24/7 expert homework help

ARTICLE REVIEW – FMS 7 References Early history of the false memory syndrome foundation . (n.d.). Retrieved from False Memory Syndrome Foundation: http://www.fmsfonline.org/?about=EarlyHistory Pope, K. S. (1996). Memory, abuse, and science: Questioning claims about the false memory syndrome epidemic. American Psychologist, 51 (9), 957-974. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy2.apus.edu/10.1037/0003-066X.51.9.957

Related Documents

Reflection #2 Annabella Benlian.docx

Parenting Skills Intervention Group Activity.docx

homeworkweek1-key,emma.docx

homeworkweek2_key,emma.docx

Wk 2 forum.docx

Literature Review - original draft.docx

What is the meaning of a word or phrase.docx

Theoretical Orientation Paper.docx

What is confidence.docx

HUSS125 Assessment Questions Tamara Phairr.docx

PSYC-209 W20 Final Exam (CH. 1-11) - 100 questions - Multiple Choice - No Time Limit - Open Book_ Cr

BiPolar Disorder.pdf

Recommended textbooks for you

Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)

Psychology

ISBN:9780134477961

Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White

Publisher:PEARSON

Cognitive Psychology

Psychology

ISBN:9781337408271

Author:Goldstein, E. Bruce.

Publisher:Cengage Learning,

Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and ...

Psychology

ISBN:9781337565691

Author:Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer, Tanya S. Martini

Publisher:Cengage Learning

Psychology in Your Life (Second Edition)

Psychology

ISBN:9780393265156

Author:Sarah Grison, Michael Gazzaniga

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research a...

Psychology

ISBN:9781285763880

Author:E. Bruce Goldstein

Publisher:Cengage Learning

Theories of Personality (MindTap Course List)

Psychology

ISBN:9781305652958

Author:Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen Schultz

Publisher:Cengage Learning

SEE MORE TEXTBOOKS

Recommended textbooks for you

Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)
Psychology
ISBN:9780134477961
Author:Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White
Publisher:PEARSON
Cognitive Psychology
Psychology
ISBN:9781337408271
Author:Goldstein, E. Bruce.
Publisher:Cengage Learning,
Introduction to Psychology: Gateways to Mind and ...
Psychology
ISBN:9781337565691
Author:Dennis Coon, John O. Mitterer, Tanya S. Martini
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Psychology in Your Life (Second Edition)
Psychology
ISBN:9780393265156
Author:Sarah Grison, Michael Gazzaniga
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research a...
Psychology
ISBN:9781285763880
Author:E. Bruce Goldstein
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Theories of Personality (MindTap Course List)
Psychology
ISBN:9781305652958
Author:Duane P. Schultz, Sydney Ellen Schultz
Publisher:Cengage Learning