"Mark Pendergrast's The Repressed Memory Epidemic does a masterful job of assessing the myth of repressed and recovered memories as well as the devastating damage done by those who promulgate the myth." (James McGaugh, Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, author of Memory and Emotion) "As Mark Pendergrast shows with new research and other evidence, many therapists continue using methods that create false and perniciously harmful memories in their clients. The Repressed Memory Epidemic is essential, if scary, reading, and it won't allow us to forget." (Carol Tavris, social psychologist, co-author, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) and other books) "During the 1980s and 1990s, I was astonished and appalled when members of my own profession of psychiatry contributed to one of the most harmful psychological crazes that has ever occurred, starting in the United States and spreading to most of the 'civilized' world. The idea was that people 'repressed' or 'dissociated' years of traumatic memories of horrendous abuse, and some were convinced they had multiple internal personalities. In The Repressed Memory Epidemic, Mark Pendergrast has captured and explained this on-going epidemic in all its full horror." (Harold Merskey, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Western University, London, Ontario and author of The Analysis of Hysteria) "In the European witch craze, thousands of people were tortured and killed based on spectral evidence. You would think in this Age of Science that we would not fall for such nonsense, but as Mark Pendergrast reveals in this exposé of a modern day witch hunt, 'repressed memories' are today's spectral evidence, and they too exist exclusively in the minds of modern inquisitors, who have ruined lives and destroyed families in the name of something nonexistent.

To find out how this could happen today, read The Repressed Memory Epidemic and be prepared to be shocked." (Michael Shermer, Publisher Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist Scientific American, Presidential Fellow Chapman University, author Why People Believe Weird Things, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth) "As war seems increasingly more removed through its virtualization and yet feels more immediate through video games and web-accessible brutalities, Tucker's book provides key guidelines for understanding the role that popular films play in mapping the spaces of 'virtual war,' and, more importantly, for developing ways to complicate the militarized violence that permeates US culture." (Susan Jeffords, Professor of English and Women Studies, University of Washington, USA) "Many people believe that 'recovered memory therapy' is a past aberration of the mental-health establishment, one that fueled the moral panic over sexual abuse in the 1990s and then subsided. But as Mark Pendergrast shows with new research and other evidence, many therapists, under the national radar, continue using methods that create false and perniciously harmful memories in their clients. The Repressed Memory Epidemic is essential, if scary, reading. It won't allow us to forget." (Carol Tavris, social psychologist, co-author, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) and other books).