Ethics and morality, Memory

Working with recovered memories

Alan Frankland and Lesley Cohen present a draft of new guidelines for good practice in this difficult area, and invite comment and debate.

18 February 1999

Recovered memory and the risk of false memory are important issues of concern for a wide range of practitioner psychologists. The Society wishes to ensure that any guidelines eventually adopted in this area have widespread currency among the membership. A draft set of new guidelines has been developed as the result of a decision by the Professional Affairs Board (PAB) to review the earlier guidelines issued by the Society (The British Psychological Society, 1995b).

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