Jane Doe case

This article is about the US recovered memory case of the 1990s and 2000s. For other uses, see Jane Doe (disambiguation).

The Jane Doe case is an influential childhood sexual abuse and recovered memory case study published by psychiatrist David Corwin and Erna Olafson (1997).[1] The case was important in regards to repressed and recovered traumatic memories because, being a well-documented study, it had the potential to provide evidence for the existence of the phenomena.[1][2] The case served as an educational example of childhood sexual abuse and recovered traumatic memory[3] until further investigation by Elizabeth Loftus and Melvin J. Guyer revealed serious concerns about its background and validity.[4][5] The original article appeared in Child Maltreatment in 1997,[1] accompanied by a series of articles by five additional psychologists and memory experts: Paul Ekman,[6] Stephen Lindsay,[2] Ulrich Neisser,[7] Frank W. Putnam,[8] and Jonathan W. Schooler,[9] giving their own comments and interpretations about the case.

  1. ^ a b c Corwin, David; Olafson, Erna (1 May 1997). "Videotaped Discovery of a Reportedly Unrecallable Memory of Child Sexual Abuse: Comparison with a Childhood Interview Videotaped 11 Years Before". Child Maltreatment. 2 (2): 91–112. doi:10.1177/1077559597002002001. S2CID 143444117.
  2. ^ a b Lindsay, D. Stephen (1 August 1997). "Jane doe in context: Sex abuse, lives, and videotape". Child Maltreatment. 2 (3): 187–192. doi:10.1177/1077559597002003001. S2CID 145227558.
  3. ^ Loftus, Elizabeth F. (Fall 2003). "On Science under legal assault". Daedalus. 132 (4): 84–86. doi:10.1162/001152603771338823. JSTOR 20027886. S2CID 57571903.
  4. ^ Loftus, Elizabeth F.; Guyer, Melvin J. (May–June 2002). "Who Abused Jane Doe? The Hazards of the Single Case History Part 1". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 26, no. 3. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. pp. 24–32. Archived from the original on 29 June 2017.
  5. ^ Tavris, Carol (January–February 2008). "Whatever Happened to 'Jane Doe'?". Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 32, no. 1. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. pp. 28–30. ISSN 0194-6730. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017.
  6. ^ Ekman, Paul (1 May 1997). "Expressive behavior and the recovery of a traumatic memory: Comments on the videotapes of jane doe". Child Maltreatment. 2 (2): 113–116. doi:10.1177/1077559597002002002. S2CID 144434188.
  7. ^ Neisser, Ulric (1 May 1997). "Jane doe's memories: Changing the past to serve the present". Child Maltreatment. 2 (2): 123–125. doi:10.1177/1077559597002002005. S2CID 144924153.
  8. ^ Putnam, Frank W. (1 May 1997). "Commentary". Child Maltreatment. 2 (2): 117–120. doi:10.1177/1077559597002002003. S2CID 220341426.
  9. ^ Schooler, Jonathan W. (1 May 1997). "Reflections on a memory discovery". Child Maltreatment. 2 (2): 126–133. doi:10.1177/1077559597002002006. S2CID 145694407.