{"id":791,"date":"2013-01-23T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=791"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:48:49","slug":"burying-the-memory-misconception-that-wont-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Burying the memory&#8217;: Misconception that won&#8217;t die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130123Nathan.jpg\" alt=\"130123Nathan\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Jan. 23, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cRitual sex abuse is back. Recently (in 2003) I heard that a conference on the topic was being held for psychotherapists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cIt was planned not to critique a nasty period in the annals of American hysteria but rather so that attendees could learn to ask patients if they\u2019ve ever been raped in day care by secret devil worshipers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThis stuff was debunked in the 1990s as a type of urban myth. Yet it keeps cropping up, complete with pseudo-scientific theories about the psychology of so-called victims \u2013 theories that likewise refuse to die.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cOne such theory is that children who are molested often grow up to deny that the crime ever happened. Many do so, the theory holds, because people commonly repress or dissociate from memories of horrific trauma \u2013 particularly sex abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThis idea has been repeatedly discredited by research psychologists. But&#8230; in pop culture and among many child-protection workers, it\u2019s still de rigueur to think that a child who was fondled or raped is at risk of burying the memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201cThe Exorcists\u201d by Debbie Nathan in the Washington Post (May 4, 2003)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 23, 2013 \u201cRitual sex abuse is back. Recently (in 2003) I heard that a conference on the topic was being held for psychotherapists. \u201cIt was planned not to critique a nasty period in the annals of American hysteria but rather so that attendees could learn to ask patients if they\u2019ve ever been raped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}