Services and Membership

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Services - Besides a helpline and access to legal advice, the BFMS supplies the following items:

Academic Articles

We have an extensive archive of academic articles. Click here to view the latest article list. If you would like copies of particular items then please telephone the BFMS office.

False Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse

This 15 minute documentary highlights the devastating phenomenon whereby adults come to believe new-found memories of childhood sexual abuse which are not factually true. It introduces the key psychiatric, psychological and scientific issues which bear upon the false memory phenomenon. World renowned researchers and clinicians have contributed to the production of this video together with the tragic, yet sometimes hopeful, stories from families and their retracting sons and daughters.

DVD or video available - price £6 inclusive of p&p

False Memories - a peripheral issue?

Reprint of a chapter by Roger Scotford taken from Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling, edited by Colin Feltham, pub Sage Publications, 1999 pp43-52.

Price £2 inclusive of p&p

Review article: Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse - Implications for Practice

S. Brandon, J. Boakes, D. Glaser, R. Green, Reprinted from The British Journal of Psychiatry April 1998, pub The Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Price £2 inclusive of p&p (for extracts from The 'Brandon' Report click here)

Tragic Problems

Coping with false accusations of sexual abuse arising from false memories by Barnabas, 1999. This booklet is a collection of helpful ideas for dealing with the effects that false allegations of the most evil things can wreak on all aspects of your life.

Price £3 inclusive of p&p

What is False Memory? - Frequently Asked Questions

An excellent resource which has been circulated nationwide to Heads of Social Services, Police Chiefs, community law services, information services such as CAB's, NSPCC's - available on request, free of charge or click here for the pdf version.