(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabrielle Principe, College of Charleston (THE CONVERSATION) In 1990, George Franklin ...

Repressed-memory therapy supposedly unearths buried memories of sexual abuse that occurred 20 or 30 years before. The therapy, which emerged in California in the late '80s, has spread across the ...

The accusations were based on memories extracted from people through a psychotherapy technique dubbed “RMT,” for recovered or repressed memory therapy. By the 1990s, many of the charges based on RMT ...

In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison based on the testimony of his 28-year-old daughter Eileen. She described seeing him rape her best friend and then smash ...

Belknap, 420 pp., $35 AT THE END of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud–ever anxious to present an overarching, universal explanation for mental unrest–suggested that “repressed memories” of ...

What if something terrible happened to you, and you weren’t able to remember it? That’s one of the questions at the center of Amy Griffin’s memoir, The Tell, which is quickly becoming one of the ...

For a long time, Amy Griffin could not slow down. The high-powered investor and West Texas native helped boost brands like Spanx, Goop, Bumble and Hello Sunshine, all while raising four kids with her ...