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[–]fr_bandersnatchghey... 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

He predicted the excesses of gender affirming treatment — like the 1990s “enthusiasm” over repressed memory and multiple personality — would be reined in by the courts, not by the psychiatric profession.

So I was very young in the 90's. Could someone clue me in on what went down with repressed memory & multiple personality diagnoses? I'm assuming these were... over-diagnosed fads? Was there blow-back over them at some point? Someone finally observed that the emperor had no clothes? Want's the history?

[–]unUSEFULidiot 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty sure the "satanic panic" started the trend. It was a moral panic, similar to the moral panic around childhood kidnappings in the 80's and the panic around shark attacks in the summer of 2001 I believe.

I recommend searching up Jonathan Haidt on YouTube. The guy has a couple of lectures which give a good overview of the phenomenon.