d, it has been reported that over two-thirds of people who have alleged abuse stated that their first suspicion that abuse had occurred arose during a therapy session (Roe et al., 1994). Therefore it is necessary to examine the evidence that pseudomemories have been recovered during therapy. In a critique of the article of Lindsay and Read (1994) outlining the risk of false memories being created in therapy, Pezdek (1994) argues that evidence for therapist-implanted memory is weak. Lindsay and Read (1994) have been criticized for asserting the possibility that false memories can be created while providing no evidence for the phenomenon (Pezdek, 1994). As Pezdek reflects, `it is illogical to infer the existence of a phenomenon from the possibility of explaining it'. In order to support the view that it is possible for pseudomemories to be created, Read and Lindsay (1994) cite examples of bizarre and unlikely memories which have been recovered during therapy, some of which were in press at the time of Lindsay and Read's article. For example, Bass and Davis (1988) write of recovered memories of entire cities of satanic ritual abusers. Another account described a woman who recalled giving birth at the age of eight, and Loftus et al. (1994) writes of therapist-aided memories of life in the womb, the bizarre nature of which lead Read and Lindsay to conclude them to be highly unlikely to be true. They also refer to reports of a therapist-assisted memory of molestation by a man who was later found to have been out of the country at the time. Far from regarding this fact as evidence that the abuse did not occur, the client reported that she must, therefore, have been abused by a different man. While this example does not in any way prove that abuse did not occur, it does provide an example of a client altering the story to fit the facts and grants some credence to the notion that it is possible to recall events inaccurately. Ceci and Loftus (199...
