The recovered memory movement in the 1980s and early 1990s was a moral panic where therapists helped clients unearth supposedly repressed memories, shattering families.

Evidence

The Forgotten Lessons of the Recovered Memory Movement (The New York Times)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Folktales can escalate into moral panics in troubled times. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 77; The Satanic panic was a moral panic of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse, starting in the 1980s and persisting today. — Satanic panic — Wikipedia; A moral panic sometimes passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective memory. — Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The creation of the Mods and Rockers (+1 more)