Excellent article/link...

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# If abuse memories do not emerge spontaneously, this may be due to healthy and protective psychological "defense mechanisms."

# "Digging for memories," or trying to force abuse memories to emerge, is almost never a helpful approach, and can cause a great deal of harm. This can cause increased distress and confusion, and behaviors that are harmful to oneself and important relationships (including false memories and mistaken accusations).

# Attempting to recover abuse memories using hypnosis or other mind-altering techniques is almost never a good idea. The risk of creating very distorted or outright false memories is increased by such methods.

# Even focusing on abuse memories one already has, without proper preparation, will almost always increase distress, instability and self-destructiveness.

# Though new memories may emerge during the course of therapy, and managing and making sense of such memories can be part of the healing process, recovering memories of abuse should never be the focus, or even a goal, of therapy or counseling.

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I should send this article to my old T.. He might "learn" something.. grrrrrrr all those years.. Only proves what a "quack" the old T was/is... No wonder I came out a worse basket case than when I went in...