What made two seemingly happy young women from loving homes sever all contact with their families and friends, renounce their inheritances and vanish into thin air? Mick Brown investigates how a self-styled ‘personal development coach’ digging for ‘forgotten’ childhood memories opened a door to catastrophe
Towards the end of 2016 I received a telephone call asking whether I would be interested in talking to a woman named Anne Craig. Described to me as a ‘personal development coach’, Craig, I was told, was involved in an interesting case where she had been accused of attempting to separate young women who had been her clients from their families by implanting false memories of having been abused...