They include Robert Crocker, an Adelaide-based academic and writer told Guardian Australia that she told him about the alleged rape in February 2019, which is significantly earlier than many of her other friends. There are other friends she disclosed the allegations to before reading the book in September. An inquiry would establish this beyond a shred of doubt.” “Her memories never had to be “recovered” as she lived with them constantly. Our friend sought professional help for her trauma years before 2019,’’ friend Jo Dyer, the director of the Adelaide Writers Festival said. I see what happened with this article as a reflection of the incredible difficulties society has with staring trauma in the face and providing people with the facts of what happens, how bad it is, and how well treatments work.”Ĭoncerns that repressed memory treatment could be raised as an issue in her coronial inquiry were first raised on Friday by online news outlet Crikey that suggested her memories were “freshly minted.”
“Trauma evokes a lot of passion,” he said. Van der Kolk refuted that he had been a “defender” of repressed-memory therapy, insisting he had simply testified on behalf of sexual-abuse victims of Catholic clergy when the lawyers had tried to discredit the plaintiffs.
It also said he had been an expert witness in court cases involving therapists accused of implanting false memories of early abuse, cases in which “entire lives were destroyed”.
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