False memory syndrome—false therapy syndrome

In this chapter, R. D. Hinshelwood traces psychoanalytic theories on memory from Freud to the present day. He also provides a complex account of the interleaving in an analytic session between true and false memory of abuse. When, for example, is the memory of abuse a way of describing a present abusive therapy falsified as a past memory? More than anything else, this chapter highlights the multi-layered nature of a psychoanalytic session.