--- title: "1 Elizabeth-loftus Quotes By Valerie Sinason" description: "1 Elizabeth-loftus quotes by Valerie Sinason. Plus more from Valerie Sinason and more Elizabeth-loftus sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8a/valerie-sinason-38025_abuse-deniers_two-other-highly-vocal-fmsf-advisory-boa_384581.jpg" --- > [“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist whose much quoted laboratory experiment of successfully implanting a fictitious childhood memory of being lost in a shopping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/two-other-highly-vocal-fmsf-advisory-board-members-are-dr-elizabeth/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8a/valerie-sinason-38025_abuse-deniers_two-other-highly-vocal-fmsf-advisory-boa_384581.jpg) ## More by Valerie Sinason > [“Those of us who work in the field of trauma and abuse, whether psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, doctors, counselors, or psychotherapists, have been provided…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/those-of-us-who-work-in-the-field-of-trauma-and-abuse-whether/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“Mind control is built on lies and manipulation of attachment needs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/mind-control-is-built-on-lies-and-manipulation-of-attachment-needs/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to people. Look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/when-there-is-abuse-by-itself-it-s-scary-enough-when-there-is-abuse/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist whose much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/two-other-highly-vocal-fmsf-advisory-board-members-are-dr-elizabeth/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to people... nobody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/when-there-is-abuse-by-itself-it-s-scary-enough-when-there-is-abuse-2/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians. \[Referring to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/i-find-it-disturbing-that-one-anthropologist-s-readings-of/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“How do we find words for describing levels of betrayal and emotional, physical, sexual and spiritual torture that fragment and destroy a child or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/how-do-we-find-words-for-describing-levels-of-betrayal-and-emotional/) [Valerie Sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“I have stated elsewhere (Sinason 1994) that the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious and racial orthodoxy outweighs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/i-have-stated-elsewhere-sinason-1994-that-the-number-of-children-and/) [Valerie sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) > [“the number of children and adults tortured in the name of mainstream religious orthodoxy historically outweighs onslaught by Satanists”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/valerie-sinason/the-number-of-children-and-adults-tortured-in-the-name-of-mainstream/) [Valerie sinason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/valerie-sinason/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/elizabeth-loftus/valerie-sinason/#itemlist", "name": "1 Elizabeth-loftus Quotes By Valerie Sinason", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist whose much quoted laboratory experiment of successfully implanting a fictitious childhood memory of being lost in a shopping mall is frequently used to defend the false memory syndrome argument. In the experiment, older family members persuaded younger ones of the (supposedly) never real event. However, Loftus herself says that being lost, which almost everyone has experienced, is in no way similar to being abused. Jennifer Freyd comments on the shopping mall experiment in Betrayal Trauma (1996): “If this demonstration proves to hold up under replication it suggests both that therapists can induce false memories and, even more directly, that older family members play a powerful role in defining reality for dependent younger family members.\" (p. 104). Elizabeth Loftus herself was sexually abused as a child by a male babysitter and admits to blacking the perpetrator out of her memory, although she never forgot the incident. In her autobiography, Witness for the Defence, she talks of experiencing flashbacks of this abusive incident on occasion in court in 1985 (Loftus &Ketcham, 1991, p.149) In her teens, having been told by an uncle that she had found her mother's drowned body, she then started to visualize the scene. Her brother later told her that she had not found the body. Dr Loftus's successful academic career has run parallel to her even more high profile career as an expert witness in court, for the defence of those accused of rape, murder, and child abuse. She is described in her own book as the expert who puts memory on trial, sometimes with frightening implications. She used her theories on the unreliability of memory to cast doubt, in 1975, on the testimony of the only eyewitness left alive who could identify Ted Bundy, the all American boy who was one of America's worst serial rapists and killers (Loftus & Ketcham, 1991, pp. 61-91). 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