What do the RMT advocates say?
Many of the more prominent RMT advocates use a check list approach to diagnose repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse as the cause of a patient’s problems, despite the fact that “there is no single set of symptoms which automatically indicates that a person was a victim of childhood abuse” (APA report). Yet, works on child abuse promoting such a notion have been very popular among therapists and talk show hosts featuring Ellen Bass, Laura Davis, Wendy Maltz, Beverly Holman, Beverly Engel, Mary Jane Williams and E. Sue Blume. Through communal reinforcement many empirically unsupported notions, including the claim that about half of all women have been sexually abused, get treated as a ‘fact’ by many people. Dr. Carol Tavris writes In what can only be called an incestuous arrangement, the authors of these books all rely on one another’s work as supporting evidence for their own; they all endorse and recommend one another’s books to their readers. If one of them comes up with a conc
