This was a recovered memory by Ford during a 2012 therapy session. What type of therapy?
False memory syndrome. Many psychologists were sued big time for this.
It was that she first told her husband the details when they were in therapy.
Of course she could have made the whole thing up.
Or it could have happened and then years later when Kavanaugh's name comes up in the news, she automatically "remembers" it was him.
Or she decides to use the confused memory to smear an innocent man for political reasons.
But if the article is to be believed, this wasn't one of those cases where someone suddenly "remembered" something in therapy that she had no knowledge of before.
I think you're right. She said she had received "treatment" for the assault, but she didn't get medical treatment. I think she was in therapy, not with the marriage counselor but with someone else earlier. Maybe she'd been abused as a child by someone else, and this story is what developed out of the therapy and her later brooding on her problems. Eventually the story got attached to Kavanaugh because of politics. Maybe she liked him. Maybe he was a jerk. But she came to obsess about him because of the politics. Just my opinion, though.