False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF)

"If you are neutral in a situation of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has his foot on the tail of the mouse, and you say you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality" - Bishop Desmond Tutu

Websites          Publications

Websites

The Alleged Ethical Violations of Elizabeth Loftus in the Case of Jane Doe by Neil D. Brick, MA Ed.  
http://members.aol.com/smartnews/Loftus_Ethics.htm 

Discrediting the False Memory Syndrome Foundation by Astraea
http://www.astraeasweb.net/politics/fmindex.shtml  

Dr. Louis Jolyon West and the Neuropsychiatic Institute by Max Nagano
http://www.english.ucla.edu/ucla1960s/7274/Max/nagano4.htm

The Facade of Scientific Documentation: A Case Study of Richard Ofshe's Analysis of the Paul Ingram Case by Karen Olio at William Cornell, Psychology, Public Policy and the Law, Vol. 4, Issue #4, pp. 1182-1197.
http://www.kspope.com/memory/facade1a.php 

The False Memory Defense: Using Disinformation and Junk Science in and out of Court by Charles L. Whitfield, M.D., F.A.S.A.M.
http://childabuse.gactr.uga.edu/both/whitfield/whitfield_print.phtml

"False Memory Syndrome" Facts by Linda Chapman, MSW
http://www.fmsf.com/ 

The False Memory Syndrome Foundation  
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=false%20memory%20syndrome%20foundation 

False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) Scientific and Professional Advisory Board
http://www.fmsfonline.org/advboard.html 

False Memory Syndrome:  Scientific Analysis by Linda Chapman, MSW
http://www.fmsf.com/scientific.shtml 

The Highly Misleading Truth and Responsibility in Mental Health Practices Act:  The "False Memory" Movement's Remedy for a Nonexistent Problem by Judith M. Simon.  
http://members.aol.com/conch8/antiTRMP1.html 

Lost in a Shopping Mall - A Breach of Professional Ethics and Logical Fallacies and Ethical Breaches by Lynn S. Crook and Martha C. Dean. 
http://users.owt.com/crook/memory.

Messing with Our Minds by Husayn Al-Kurdi, Toward Freedom Online Magazine, May 1998.  
http://www.towardfreedom.com/1998/may98/messing.htm 

The Memory Debate Archives
http://www.tmdarchives.org/

Morrison threatens to sue witness by Dion Leflert
06/13/07
"Expert witness Paul McHugh, a psychiatrist, could face disciplinary action for revealing information in Wichita abortion records."
http://www.mywire.com/pubs/WichitaEagle/2007/06/13/3733521?extID=10037&oliID=229 
also see http://www.kaisernetwork.org/Daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=45573 

Mr. Bubbles and Ralph Underwager Australia 60 Minutes
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/MrBubbles.html 

Paidka Interview: Hollida Wakefield and Ralph Underwager 
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Underwager2.html 

Ralph Underwager, Ex-advisory Board Member of the FMSF
http://www.legacy.com/StarTribune/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=1646882

Ralph Underwager Expert Testimony  
http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Underwager4.html 

Write Book Reviews to Fight False Memory Syndrome!
Pro-FMSF website

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Publications

Accuracy of Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases:  A Case Study of Ralph Underwager and Holida Wakefield by Anna Salter, Ph.D  
Midwest Center, 426 S. Yellowstone Dr., Madison WI  53719-1015.  Phone:  (608) 218-9417  

Misinformation Concerning Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Survivors  by Charles L. Whitfield, MD, FASAM; Joyanna Silberg, PhD; and Paul Jay Fink, MD, Eds.  
Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press, 2002.  Hardcover - ISBN 0789019000. Paperback - ISBN 0789019019  
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789019019/002-3979644-2298422?v=glance

The Politics and Experience of Ritual Abuse:  Beyond Disbelief by Sara Scott  
Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press, May 2001. Hardcover - ISBN 0335204201. Paperback - ISBN 0335204198.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0335204198/qid=1090701054/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3979644-2298422?
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This page was most recently edited on 11/02/2009.

Emergency contacts and resources 

SOUTHEAST
TENNESSEE

Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc.
Chattanooga Office
Phone 423-267-1297 
Fax 423-265-4923

Children's 
Advocacy Centerof Hamilton County County 
24-hour child abuse hotline: 
1-877-54-ABUSE

Domestic Violence
Resources

Focus Adolescent Services: Family Help in Tennessee
(410) 341-4342
(877) 362-8727

The Partnership
for Families,
Children and Adults
(Partnershipfca)
Family Violence 
Services Shelter
and Sexual Crisis & Resource Center
24-hour hotline:
(423) 755-2700

Survival Necessities Assistance

Tennessee Dept.
of Human Services
Child and elder abuse
24-hour hotline:
(423) 266-0162

USA 

Abuse Consultants
Suicide resource
page

Child Help USA
24-hour National
Child Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453

Cyber Tipline
To report child sexual exploitation
24-hour hotline: 1-800-843-5678

Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men
24-hour hotline:
1-877-643-1120, 
pin # 0757

Friends of Battered Women and Their Children
Counseling and legal
advocacy
24-hour hotline:
1-800-603-4357

Hot Peach
Pages - USA
State lists of agencies against domestic violence

KID SAVE
"Referrals to shelters, mental health services,
sexual abuse
treatment, substance abuse, family counseling,
residential care, adoption/foster care, etc."
24-hour helpline:
1-800-543-7283

National Center
for Missing and
Exploited
Children (NCMEC)
24-hour hotline
1-800-843-5678

National Center
on Elder Abuse
State Elder Abuse
Hotlines

National Family
Violence Helpline
24-hour hotlines:
National Child
Abuse Hotline
1-800-422-4453
National Domestic
Violence Hotline
1-800-799-7233 or
1-800-787-3244
(TTY)
Victims of elder abuse
1-800-879-6682

National Family
Violence Hotline
24-hour hotlines:
1-800- 221-2681  
1-800- 222-2000

National Runaway/ Adolescent Suicide Hotline
24-hour hotline:
1-800-621-4000

National Suicide Hotline
(Centerstone)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-SUICIDE
(1-800-784-2433)

National Youth
Crisis Hotline
"...for children and
youth who are
abused, suicidal, chemically dependent, depressed over family
or school problems, runaway or
abandoned."
24-hour hotline
1-800-442-4673

Prevent Suicide 
Do you feel you have tried everything, and nothing makes pain go away? Do you feel like your answer is suicide? Then please just take one minute and dial 1-800-SUICIDE 
(1-800-784-2433)

Rape, Abuse, &
Incest National
Network (RAINN)
24-hour hotline:
1-800-656-4673

SAFE (Self-Abuse
Finally Ends) Alternatives) 
Provides Information;
not a crisis number
1-800-DONT-CUT
(1-800-366-8288)

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Stop It Now!
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Helpline 
(office hours only)
1-888-773-8368

Suicide Prevention
24-hour hotlines
1-800-827-7571
1-800-784-2433

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

CANADA  

Abuse
Consultants
Suicide resources

Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse & Childhood Trauma
Serves Ottawa-Carleton 
613-233-4929

Hot Peach
Pages - Canada  
Agencies against
domestic violence

Kids' Help Phone
National phone counselling svc. for children and youths
24-hour hotline
1-800-668-6868

Stop Abuse for
Everyone (SAFE)

Telecare Distress
Centre
Confidential 24-hour crisis and befriending phone support line:
(905) 459-7777
(Not toll-free)
Email address: telecare@on.aibn.com

Victims of Violence
For victims of violent crime - Ottawa, Ontario
(613) 233-0052
vofv@victimsofviolence.
on.ca

Virtual Global Task Force (VGT)
"...made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse."

Many more helpful contacts are listed on NAFF's Recovery Resources and More Resources  web pages.

Every day around the world, and even here in the United States, children are sold into virtual slavery or traffic for the worst forms of sexual abuse -  President Bill Clinton, U.N. Protocol Orders Signing Ceremony July 5, 2000.

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