Legal Opinion

Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield v. Anna Salter

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided April 25, 1994No. 93-2422PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Psychologists Ralph Underwager and Hol-hda Wakefield have written two books: Accusations of Child Sexual Abuse (1988), and The Real World of Child Interrogations (1990). They conclude that most accusations of child sexual abuse stem from memories implanted by faulty clinical techniques rather than from sexual contact between children and adults. The books have not been well received in the medical and scientific press. A review of the first in the Journal of the American Medical Association concludes that the authors took a one-sided approach: “it may be that the…

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