memories

A big payout is on its way to Katrina Fairlie from NHS Tayside after therapy she was offered led to her accusing her father of rape: -

Katrina was undergoing recovered memory therapy in a psychiatric hospital in Perth when she made a series of allegations of sexual abuse by her father, former SNP deputy leader Jim Fairlie.

She later said those claims were completely untrue and a police investigation found there was no evidence of abuse

This wasn’t before her “memories” had ripped the family apart, however, and that is the basis of her claim.

Recovered memory “therapy” is now largely discredited and seems only to be available through various kooky organisations. But stories such as Katrina Fairlie’s are, I think, a useful reminder that talking therapies aren’t always the benign treatments they’re thought to be.