The Psychiatric Times has been taking quite a bit of flack for an essay they published by Richard Noll, who concluded that psychiatrists across the country contributed to the so called sensationalism of the "moral panic" of satanic ritual abuse.
Basically, he discredits the recovery of traumatic memories and those patients and clinicians who claim to have such memories.
However, people are fighting back against this statement. Is it any wonder that those suffering from DID (multiple personality disorder) are willing to defend that their experiences are real and valid?
Richard Kluft, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, had this to say about the article:
it is clear that iatrogenic pressures may lead to the development of additional self-states in already dissociative individuals.6 Further, evidence has accumulated to demonstrate that while false memories may be induced in a small percentage of vulnerable individuals, the recall of once inaccessible memories that can be documented as accurate is a well-documented phenomenon.7 Noll’s style of argumentation links phenomena commonly attacked together, but he fails to note that even the most complete refutation of every single satanic ritual abuse allegation would leave his skepticism about the possibility of accurate recovered memories and his accusations about the iatrogenesis of DID unproven. In a 1995[8] article I demonstrated the recovery of initially unavailable accurate memories of trauma, false memories, and the fact that both could coexist in traumatized dissociative patients.
Yes, dissociative identity disorder is real and observable, and past traumatic and ACCURATE memories are retrievable at a later date.
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