Skeletons Without Bones: Dragging Recovered Memories of Sexual Abuse Out of the Closet

By Donna M. Laurence and Titus

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579210775
• ISBN13: 9781579210779
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Winepress Pub
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Chronicles the tragedy of junk science in action

This book takes the reader into the family of the author, whose father had been accused by the author's adult sister of abusing her as a child. The allegations of abuse arose from the sister's counseling sessions with an unethical and manipulative psychologist in Washington State--himself a sexual predator and who finally lost his license as a result of his actions. (My one criticism of the book is that the psychologist is apparently not named with his true name. Such people need to be publically named so that others might not be hurt by them.) The author explores the devastating impact the false accusations had upon the whole family, and she takes us through the process that each family member went through in coming to the conclusion that the accusations were in fact false. Anyone affected by this "recovered memory" phenomenon, which is considered "junk science" by many people both in and outside the field of psychology, will find this book an encouragement as they struggle with the impact of these iatrogenic accusations on their own family and friends.