Sometimes we 'Reconstruct' False Memories

Another study has found that memory is not completely accurate. A Canadian researcher found that fully two thirds of subjects accepted a false grade-school event as having happened to them when information about regarding the event was supplemented with a class photo. I'm not sure that this study can be directly applied to psychotherapy, though.

Do psychotherapists really use photographs as memory cues for the "recovery" of possible childhood sexual abuse memories? I've never heard of that practice.

Read a news release about the study

Reliability and Suggestibility of Child Abuse Memories