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false memory
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false memory
Recovered memory, repressed memory Psychiatry A series of suggestions and cues that cause a person to believe an event occurred, which in fact did not Mechanism of FM Source amnesia. See Memory, Source amnesia.


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A number of these newspaper and magazine stories originate with the False Memory Syndrome Foundation, an organization of parents formed to combat their children's incest and abuse charges.
As she discusses, proponents of False Memory Syndrome have already set about trying to prove that these personal descriptions--such as Fraser's--cannot represent truth.
Holmes sits on the board of directors of the False Memory Syndrome (FMS) Foundation, a private organization founded in 1992 to provide information and support to members of more than 2,400 families who contend that they have been falsely accused of sexual abuse.
 
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