I am a complete layman. I cannot guarantee for anything. I read about it in the German media and would have liked to link these reports. But I had to search for English sources. I would have liked to copy and paste passages in order to avoid spreading fake news. I was ambivalent whether I should post about it. I think the people here are already pretty sceptical about therapy. Personally therapy helped me a lot and I can only recommend it. But I think if at least one person could profit of the following information the thread might was worth it.
Here are some links:
www.independent.co.uk
www.vox.com
The research in my country is not that advanced on this phenomenon. I also read about it in Swiss media.
www.srf.ch
You can use a translator if you want to know the details. I try to sum it up but with no guarantee.
Some therapists for traumata were influenced by conspiracy theories. They chatted the patients up so that the patients believed they experienced ritual satanist child abuse. They invoked fake memories - seemingly unintentionally. Even authorites believed such conspiracies and their investigations were influenced because of it. There are no evidences for such a danger. Some patients suffered because of this false treatment.
I am not sure how widespread this phenomenon is in other countries. It is scary for sure. I never met therapists with such bad intentions. So I rather assume it happened unintentionally in the vast majority of cases.
Here are some links:
How a doctor and his patient sparked a global ‘Satanic Panic’
The publication of Michelle Remembers, a 1980 memoir co-written by a Canadian therapist and a patient who ‘recovered’ memories of torture by Satanists, sparked international mass hysteria about child abuse and devil worship. A new film looks at the impact of the book on the world – and...
www.independent.co.uk
Demonic rituals, false confessions, ruined lives: Satanic Panic is still alive and well
The collective fears that consumed the US in the 1980s and ’90s are still alive and well — all the way through QAnon and beyond.
www.vox.com
The research in my country is not that advanced on this phenomenon. I also read about it in Swiss media.
Rituelle Gewalt/Mind Control - Leonies Fall zeigt die tragischen Folgen von «Satanic Panic»
In mehreren psychiatrischen Kliniken der Schweiz wurde vor dem Hintergrund einer Verschwörungserzählung therapiert.
You can use a translator if you want to know the details. I try to sum it up but with no guarantee.
Some therapists for traumata were influenced by conspiracy theories. They chatted the patients up so that the patients believed they experienced ritual satanist child abuse. They invoked fake memories - seemingly unintentionally. Even authorites believed such conspiracies and their investigations were influenced because of it. There are no evidences for such a danger. Some patients suffered because of this false treatment.
I am not sure how widespread this phenomenon is in other countries. It is scary for sure. I never met therapists with such bad intentions. So I rather assume it happened unintentionally in the vast majority of cases.
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