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MY LIE: A True Story of False Memory by Meredith Maran

Filed under: Sex Abuse / CYF — JohnPotter @ 10:03 am Thu 28th October 2010

Hello, I’m the author of a new book about my false accusation against my father, and thought you might like to know about it/post it on your site.
MY LIE cover

Here’s the page on Amazon.uk

And here’s my website page with details about the book: meredithmaran.com

Meredith Maran lived a daughter’s nightmare. At age 37, she accused her father of sexual abuse. Eight years later she realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent.

Maran wasn’t alone. During the 1980’s and 1990’s, a sex-abuse panic spread across the country, beginning with the infamous McMartin preschool trial. Tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they’d repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then recovered those memories in therapy. Hundreds were falsely accused. Families were destroyed.

MY LIE is the story of this modern-day witch-hunt as it played out in one woman’s life and family. It’s also a tightly wound psychological, cultural, and neuroscientific portrait of a shameful time in recent American history.

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