false memory syndrome
Fabricated recall condition
False memory syndrome describes a condition in which a person's identity and relationships are shaped by memories of traumatic events that did not actually occur.
The term emerged in the 1990s during controversies over recovered memories of childhood abuse, with skeptics arguing that therapeutic techniques could implant detailed but entirely false recollections.
The concept remains contested—some view it as a legitimate psychological phenomenon, others as a defense used to discredit abuse survivors.
- FMSRadio frequency band abbreviation
- hypnosisInduced trance state
- psychotherapyTreatment through guided conversation
- suggestibilityReadiness to accept influence
- malleabilityCapacity for deformation without breaking
eyewitness testimony · court testimony · misattribution · psychology · misremembering · dissociation · recollection · recall · implantation · satanic panic · wrongful conviction · psychological trauma · reconstruction · trauma response · schema · mnemonics · leading questions · intrusive thoughts
false memory syndromeamnesia
Pathological loss of recall
repressed memory · dissociative amnesia · memory loss · traumatic amnesia · forgetting
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