Research Finds Repressed Memories Don't Exist

ABC ^ | Karen Berkman

[Islander7]

Very!

[Carry_Okie]

Like you can recall/see the event but not feel the emotion

Don't get me wrong, there was a painful catharsis. The key to recovery of the visual memory was operating from body sensations, not thoughts.

[Carry_Okie]

I’m so sorry. May God bless you and the other victims.

It has been a blessing of understanding with which to both empathize and self-discipline. That is the grace that comes with having forgiven the perp.

[Bigh4u2]

“So you mean there is no chance of me forgetting the past two years?”

Don’t know..

Did you take the blue pill, or the red pill?

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

DUH - now can we get pardons and apologies to the Fells Acres folks who had their lives destroyed by the total BS witchhunt of “scary clowns with knives” and other repressed memory BS testimony forced out of children?

What about the witchhunt in Washington State that destroyed families?

[ladyjane]

And let’s not forget, it was liberal Martha Coakley who fought to keep the Fell’s Acres Amiraults in prison. Thank heavens Scott Brown (with all his problems) beat her in that senate race.

[SunkenCiv]

This joker (I cleaned that up) has no idea what he’s talking about.

Neither do those “no such thing as hypnosis” jackasses.

For that matter, neither do those who attribute Multiple Personality Disorder symptoms to demonic possession.

Thanks nickcarraway.

[decimon]

That’s just your repressed neanderthal speaking.

[giotto]

I have long doubted the Repressed Memory theory, but I too believe there are memories which can lay dormant for decades, wreaking havoc on the psyche, while the person is totally unaware of the underlying cause. My suspicion is that anything that happens to a child before he can articulate that experience verbally will be remembered, if at all, as nothing but a blur of impressions and feelings. The mind creates concepts and language to represent those concepts, so that they can be stored for future use, referenced, and communicated to other minds. An experience that has no corresponding stored "file" can not be retrieved. Any attempt to do so will unfortunately be inconclusive.

This is not to say that therapy can't help, though.

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[SunkenCiv]

the two quoted in the excerpt are odd bedfellows:

• Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing (EMDR)
• The Successful Treatment Of PTSD Through Overt Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Non-responders To EMDR DeVilly
• Power Therapies: Evidence vs Miraculous Claims McNally et al

[Coleus]

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[workerbee]

There’s not nearly enough information in the article to make a conclusion either way. It appears to simply be the opinions of one or two psychologists.

I absolutely believe that false memories could be “planted” by a therapist — well-intentioned or not. But I think giotto’s assessment, esp. in the case of children, is quite likely.