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Criticism
The 2010 book, Miscarriage of Memory (Bourgoyne, et al), details some of the
challenges of pseudo memory in the conduct of regression therapy. Seeking
help for adult psychological complaints, patients may approach clinicians who
hold to a genuine belief that the problem lies in the distant past – in childhood. 
In pursuing regression therapy, there is sometimes a tendency on the part of
well-meaning practitioners to pursue suggestion somewhat too emphatically,
giving rise to memories which are not based in actual history. By implanting the
suggestion of a repressed abusive memory, clinicians may unwittingly trigger
compliance in the subject, in the place of genuinely repressed memories of
actual life events.
Often these memories can involve extremely strange imagery, including sexual
perversion and even ritual abuse. The quality of the memories involved can be
transitory and fragmented, without chronological references to ground them in
fact, or historical perspective. Nonetheless, memories which arise from clinician
suggestion are too often used as the basis to arrive at conclusions which have the
power to ruin lives. They can lead to inappropriate police intervention and even
court action.
The British False Memory Society (responsible for the publication of the book
mentioned above) is dedicated to the eradication of the potentially harmless
impact of pseudo memories encountered in the course of regression therapy and
attendant memory retrieval. Identified in the 1980s as having the potential to
lead to false prosecution and ruined family relationships, false memory is now
being addressed in the British court system. Experimental psychologists are
sharing their expertise in the matter and ensuring that the function of memory is
well-understood by court authorities in order to avoid wrongful prosecutions. 
Instilling the importance of a scientific approach to the validation of memories
extracted in regression therapy, leading to the involvement of authorities, has

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had an impact on the admissibility of evidence resulting from them.
Dr. Donald Thomson’s story is a cautionary one. An Australian psychologist, he
was dismayed to find himself named as the primary suspect in a rape case. 
Fortuitously, at the time of the attack, Dr. Thomson was participating in a live
broadcast being viewed by thousands of people. Ultimately, this factor proved
his innocence. The rape victim admitted that her memory had confused Dr.
Thomson with her attacker, due to her viewing the emission immediately prior to
the attack. But cases like Dr. Thomson’s are not unusual. Of the thousands of
cases the British False Memory Society has documented, 672 have led to police
intervention and court action.
While the jury is still out on regression therapy, it appears to be a hung jury, with
both sides appealing to science in support of their respective positions. With the
tragedy of false prosecution and even the death of children in therapy, it’s crucial
that range of regression therapies, and rebirthing and attachment therapy in