Scientific Research,Recovered Memory,and Context:

Data from seven contexts (gender history, dichotomized bitterness, links between assertions and proofs, dramatizing facts, malpractice and other legal actions, therapists' own history of abuse, and therapists' experience of recovered memories) are presented and their implications explored. The data support the thesis that individuals, the profession, science, and society suffer when research findings, clinical interventions, and public policy are taken out of these seven contexts. Even otherwise reliable facts, theories, laws, and practices can become distorted, misleading, and, ultimately, harmful.