S2 Ep68: Unsolved Murder of Sister Cathy [False Memory Syndrome Foundation]

Foul Play: Crime Series

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Daily News, History

4.4 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Shane and Gemma sit down with Michael Salter to discuss the False Memory Syndrome Foundation and the reasons behind why they shut down at the end of 2019.

Michael Salter an associate professor of criminology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has been appointed as a fellow, and most of his time is focused on research. He has been researching the mental health impacts of organized abuse for the last 15 years.

Michael is involved with the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. The group was formed in the mid 1980s by clinicians and therapists who were encountering severely traumatized children and adults in mental health settings. An expert on the complex trauma, Michael discusses the work of the ISTD, an organization dedicated to educating therapists and clinicians on how to work effectively with clients who have experienced complex trauma.

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0:00.0	I'm going to Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm an Associate Professor of Criminology here at the University of New South Wales in
0:37.3	Sydney, Australia. I've been appointed as a C&T fellow which means basically you're a research
0:42.4	fellow and most of the time is focused on research.
0:45.2	It probably the last 15 years or so, most of my works been with adults who describe sexual abuse by groups of offenders in childhood.
0:54.0	So what I call organized abuse.
0:56.0	When I started doing this work 15 years ago, it was a very controversial area to work in
1:01.0	and there was a lot of skepticism, sex offenders who have been
1:04.9	children operated in networks and groups. That skepticism has disappeared
1:09.8	over the time I've been doing the work. It's really undeniable now that we need to deal with criminal
1:15.4	conspiracies of pedophiles.
1:17.1	Sex offenders? Yeah, so that's mostly what I study. So I do a lot of work on the mental health
1:22.1	impacts, those sorts of criminal activity that So I do a lot of work on the mental health impacts
1:23.1	those sorts of criminal activity that organized groups
1:26.4	get up to and increasingly working,
1:29.0	also in the tech space looking at current epidemic of online child sexual abuse material and how we can get
1:36.7	abuse images and videos of kid offline much more efficiently and effectively than we have been.
1:42.4	Fascinating already. Michael we know that efficiently and we have been
1:49.5	Fascinating already Michael we know that you're involved with the international society for the study of trauma and
1:51.3	Disociation and
1:57.0	We'd really like to hear what your involvement is and how that group came to be. Yeah, great. The ISSTD was formed in the mid 1980s in 1986 and it was fought by clinicians and therapists who were
2:07.8	encountering severely traumatized children and adults in middle health settings.
2:13.7	So in 1980, the DSM 3 was published.
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