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Researchers and Practitioners Disagree on Repressed Memory
Psychology Today ^ | Dec 13, 2013 | Faith Brynie Ph.D.

Posted on 09/17/2018 8:45:17 AM PDT by outofsalt

"As the body of research evidence has grown over the last twenty years, psychologists in general have become increasingly skeptical that repressed memories even exist, but a new study, published this week in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that researchers and practitioners hold different beliefs about whether such memories occur and whether they can be accurately recalled."


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakescience; fakestudy; memories
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"Roughly 60-80 percent of clinicians, psychoanalysts, and therapists surveyed agreed to some extent that traumatic memories are often repressed and can be retrieved in therapy, compared to less than 30 percent of research-oriented psychologists. Established researchers in clinical psychology, as well as memory researchers, are generally skeptical of the notion of repressed memory."

They accept, "split personalities" having different memories in spite of only one body. The " science" is unsettled.

1 posted on 09/17/2018 8:45:17 AM PDT by outofsalt
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To: outofsalt

Almost all Social Scientists agree, however, that such memories can be accurately recalled when it hurts Republicans.


2 posted on 09/17/2018 8:47:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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To: outofsalt

Repressed memories always exist for Demonrats, if accusations based on such memories will result in a loss of power for Republicans. Anything can be recalled, including a drunken grope from 35 years ago.


3 posted on 09/17/2018 8:47:52 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I said just about the same thing at the same time! Great minds and all...


4 posted on 09/17/2018 8:48:25 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: outofsalt

The left believes you can identify as any of 57 genders so I suppose truth is, “reality-fluid”
I have to go to work so I won’t be able to check back in for some time.


5 posted on 09/17/2018 8:49:16 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: outofsalt

This is ridiculous did she really claim it was a repressed memory? Because those are very commonly manipulated especially in therapy many years later. Besides the fact that I think she’s lying and exaggerating if she makes this claim I’m sure the memory if it exists is a fantasy.


6 posted on 09/17/2018 8:51:30 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: outofsalt

Unless there is proof, there’s no reason to bring it up decades later.


7 posted on 09/17/2018 8:53:19 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: outofsalt

Repressed memories cause anguish and pain, and they are especially destructive when false. Families have been destroyed; relationships fractured beyond repair in this lifetime. Forgiveness next to impossible except through Christ.


8 posted on 09/17/2018 8:55:20 AM PDT by navymom1
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To: outofsalt

I accept that there are in some *extreme* cases of trauma, examples of suppressed memories. That said, actual examples appear to be pretty rare, and what this woman claims happened doesn’t qualify unless she was already very unstable and mixing in hysterical delusion at the time.


9 posted on 09/17/2018 9:00:14 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: outofsalt

I have repressed memories, but I’m suspicious of people who suddenly recall everything in 1080 high def. In my case things aren’t clear or specific; it’s more emotions and triggers that indicate something bad happened. I can recall a few incidents very clearly, but everything around those events is cloudy. It’s hard to explain.

Given how fuzzy everything is (and I’m content for the actual memories to stay repressed, thank you) I would never make any kind of accusation based on what I suspect happened without any kind of proof.

But I’m a Republican, so...


10 posted on 09/17/2018 9:00:14 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Yeah, I am a Fed. So what?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Accuracy in recall of “repressed” memories can be a tricky thing. There is a level of processing in the human brain, which includes dream sequences, that can become as “real” as actual and experienced interactions with others. It is often in the dream state that these “repressed” memories come to the forefront, but there is also a great deal of emotional content in these recollections, and the nightmarish qualities of the avatar the mind creates to replay the sequence of events is finally more real than the life original.


11 posted on 09/17/2018 9:01:22 AM PDT by alloysteel (If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, bury them in bull feathers.)
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To: outofsalt

Interesting article in the Washington Post from 1993.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1993/06/27/you-must-remember-this-or-do-you-how-real-are-repressed-memories/2ad65442-1a9c-4178-80df-f67f436932e9/?utm_term=.a09c498a709f

“YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS ...... OR DO YOU? HOW REAL ARE REPRESSED MEMORIES?”

(spoiler alert - “When uncritical acceptance of uncorroborated trauma memories fuels false accusations by alleged “survivors,” the lives and reputations of innocent people are irretrievably damaged.”)


12 posted on 09/17/2018 9:08:02 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: outofsalt

The “patient” is eager to please the “therapist” and will gladly say whatever the therapist wants to hear. Same as for hypnosis.


13 posted on 09/17/2018 9:09:24 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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To: outofsalt

And then there are “implanted memories”

https://bigthink.com/philip-perry/scientists-have-discovered-how-to-implant-false-memories

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/false-memory-syndrome-false-confessions-memories


14 posted on 09/17/2018 9:16:24 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (S)
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To: Not A Snowbird

These are not repressed memories, they are very real:

Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, has been publicly accused of sexual misconduct by four women:

Juanita Broaddrick accused Clinton of raping her in 1978;

Kathleen Willey accused Clinton of groping her without consent in 1993;

Leslie Millwee accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her in 1980; and

Paula Jones accused Clinton of exposing himself to her in 1991 as well as sexually harassing her. The Jones allegations became public in 1994, during Clinton’s first term as president.

And those are the brave ones of likely dozens of women who dared to come forward. Others suffer in silence.


15 posted on 09/17/2018 9:23:15 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

In your examples, I would say they are indeed “repressed” memories, just not the way the left makes claims of repressed memories.

They are repressed literally by the threats and intimidation of the Clinton Machine thugs and knee cappers.


16 posted on 09/17/2018 9:32:29 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: outofsalt
People who have any experience with people with “repressed memories” have seen them go from happy people with some minor problems they would like to work through to paranoid basket cases.

The human mind is very suggestible. There are numerous cases where people have been shown a scene, a few suggestions are made and suddenly they remember things that did not happen or they did not see. Which is why I am skeptical of eye witnesses but that is another thing.

But in any case "repressed memories" are generally the patent's imagination run amuck with the "therapist's" warped fantasies.

17 posted on 09/17/2018 9:32:30 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: outofsalt

Researchers and practitioners might disagree; but soap operas swear by repressed memories and amnesiacs.


18 posted on 09/17/2018 9:33:42 AM PDT by Migraine (<)
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Researchers and practitioners might disagree; but soap operas swear by repressed memories and amnesiacs.

That's a big one in KDramas.

19 posted on 09/17/2018 9:34:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Migraine

Don’t forget UFO experts.


20 posted on 09/17/2018 9:36:21 AM PDT by Leep
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