In the Midwest, I witnessed a priest and an ecumenical charismatic group claiming such healings and came to the conclusion that such claims were based on emotional instability and manipulation. Sadly, as I was a young person when introduced by this priest to so-called healing of memories and at first, took this in, hook, line and sinker. Thankfully, I became more aware of the pitfalls and deceits involved. Indeed, now in England, some charismatic groups are picking up this decades old ideal of healing of memories which is completely out of their competence, and not connected with any Catholic teaching. Catholics see that healing occurs in the sacraments and through medically/psychologically trained counselors.
THE SACRAMENTS OF HEALING
1420 Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, man receives the new life of Christ. Now we carry this life "in earthen vessels," and it remains "hidden with Christ in God."1 We are still in our "earthly tent," subject to suffering, illness, and death.2 This new life as a child of God can be weakened and even lost by sin.
1421 The Lord Jesus Christ, physician of our souls and bodies, who forgave the sins of the paralytic and restored him to bodily health,3 has willed that his Church continue, in the power of the Holy Spirit, his work of healing and salvation, even among her own members. This is the purpose of the two sacraments of healing: the sacrament of Penance and the sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
1 2 Cor 4:7; Col 3:3.
http://www.susanrobbins.com/cv/recovmem.html
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/dissociative-identity-disorder/dispatch-repressed-memory-legal-front
http://sw.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/5/423.full.pdf
http://www.stopbadtherapy.com/resource/article/vsun1.shtml
http://cgu.edu/PDFFiles/sbos/deprince%202012%20motivated%20forgetting.pdf
http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/ground-lost-false-memoryrecovered-memory-therapy-debate
a snippet from the first article in the glossary...
False memory syndrome: A lay term used to describe memories of events that did not happen. Such memories are confabulated or fabricated, usually, but not exclusively, in the course of therapy aimed at retrieving early childhood memories of abuse.
Recovered memory: A memory of a past traumatic event, believed to have been concealed from consciousness by repression or dissociation, but retrieved or recovered intact at a later point in time. See also recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome.
Recovered memory therapy: A controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at retrieving traumatic memories that are believed to be repressed or dissociated. Although there is no one method for this, the techniques used most typically include hypnosis, truth serum, guided imagery, dream interpretation, age regression, free association, journaling, psychodrama, primal scream therapy, reflexology, massage and other forms of “body work” to recover “body memories.”
I am disgusted that so-called Catholic group are involved in this stuff. It is dangerous and deceitful. Non-professionals are offering so-called courses on this outside the medical and psychiatric communities.
Here is a new book on the fraud. If anyone has read this, let me know a.s.a.p. It is an e-book. I need more information on this pernicious therapy.
