The Jane Doe case is an influential childhood sexual abuse and recovered memorycase 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.
^ abcCorwin, 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. S2CID143444117.