Some of you may have seen an article on @crikey_news - which I will not link to - asserting that ‘repressed memories’ may have played a role in Christian Porter’s alleged victims recollections.
The article contains factual inaccuracies. Lots of them.
The article contains factual inaccuracies. Lots of them.
If you saw the headline and shuddered, rest assured - you don’t have to read it. The factual inaccuracies are so extensive, and the misapprehensions so profound, that the premise of the article has no value.
I don’t know why it was published. I don’t know why it’s still up.
I don’t know why it was published. I don’t know why it’s still up.
(I can send citations for all claims in this thread. Also note I’ve preemptively blocked the author @d_hardaker - I have nothing to gain from hearing him try to justify his professional failures.)
Some but not all of the errors are as follows:
1. The author conflates ‘dissociative identity disorder’ and ‘dissociative states’.
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is a vanishingly rare condition.
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is a vanishingly rare condition.
Dissociative states are the feeling that you aren’t quite real, or that the world isn’t quite real. It’s a standard response to trauma. Happens all the time.
There is no connection whatsoever between DID and experiencing dissociative states.
They share a word. That’s all.
They share a word. That’s all.
2) the author asserts that the alleged victim’s claim ‘has partially been the product of recovered memory theory’.
He provides no evidence that she undertook recovered memory therapy (similar to hypnotherapy), only that she read a book by someone associated with it.
He provides no evidence that she undertook recovered memory therapy (similar to hypnotherapy), only that she read a book by someone associated with it.
That book, ‘the body keeps the score’, is not about repressed memory therapy.
It’s about the neurophysiological manifestation of trauma.
It’s about the neurophysiological manifestation of trauma.
I experienced trauma (related to homicide) 15 years ago. Since then I’ve never met anyone who works with traumatised people - and I’ve met a lot - who didn’t accept that trauma affects the body as a self-evident truth. Lots of professionals have recommended me that book.
The author cites a non-expert - and ancient (2003!) - Forbes article, giving the example that ‘mysterious vaginal pains might indicate a long-forgotten rape’.
It’s called ‘vaginismus’. It has complex causes, one of which is trauma.
It’s called ‘vaginismus’. It has complex causes, one of which is trauma.
The author refers to EMDR therapy as ‘pseudoscience’.
EMDR is evidence-based. It is available on Medicare, is used by Open Arms with traumatised Australian veterans, and is recommended by the WHO.
EMDR is evidence-based. It is available on Medicare, is used by Open Arms with traumatised Australian veterans, and is recommended by the WHO.
In summary:
In the absence of factual inaccuracies, the premise of this story - that reading a book equates to receiving a discredited therapy that no Australian psychologist uses - would be incredibly tenuous.
But there are *a lot* of factual innacuracies.
In the absence of factual inaccuracies, the premise of this story - that reading a book equates to receiving a discredited therapy that no Australian psychologist uses - would be incredibly tenuous.
But there are *a lot* of factual innacuracies.
@crikey_news it is unethical for you to leave this horrible piece of journalism up
on your site.
You caused harm by publishing it, and you are causing harm by leaving it up.
on your site.
You caused harm by publishing it, and you are causing harm by leaving it up.
Fun times for me, I get to learn how to complain about journalism. Not something I particularly want to do but the scale of the failure is just that high.
Cc from the original thread where I came across this @RonniSalt @PhillipAdams_1
Oh look it’s the press council complaints form presscouncil.org.au/complaints-for…
Update:
Several hours and several thousand responses later, no response from @crikey_news.
The unethical and factually incorrect article remains live.
I note that no respondent on this thread has spoken in support of Crikey, the article, or it’s author.
Several hours and several thousand responses later, no response from @crikey_news.
The unethical and factually incorrect article remains live.
I note that no respondent on this thread has spoken in support of Crikey, the article, or it’s author.
A superb and very salient point from @margotchanning -
https://mobile.twitter.com/margotchanning/status/1368102402889379840
I maintain: keeping an article up when it has been shown to be factually inaccurate, which it now has, is unethical.
If anyone from crikey or anyone else wants to dispute what I’ve said in this thread, please do.
If not - take it down.
If anyone from crikey or anyone else wants to dispute what I’ve said in this thread, please do.
If not - take it down.
This is a historical addendum that will be of interest to everyone who has seen this thread* so far.
*Just north of 300 000, apparently. No response or acknowledgment from @crikey_news, the article remains live.
*Just north of 300 000, apparently. No response or acknowledgment from @crikey_news, the article remains live.
https://mobile.twitter.com/mike_salter/status/1368340004389326850
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