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."
They accept, "split personalities" having different memories in spite of only one body. The " science" is unsettled.
Almost all Social Scientists agree, however, that such memories can be accurately recalled when it hurts Republicans.
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.
I said just about the same thing at the same time! Great minds and all...
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.
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.
Unless there is proof, there’s no reason to bring it up decades later.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Interesting article in the Washington Post from 1993.
“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.”)
The “patient” is eager to please the “therapist” and will gladly say whatever the therapist wants to hear. Same as for hypnosis.
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
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.
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.
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.
Researchers and practitioners might disagree; but soap operas swear by repressed memories and amnesiacs.
That's a big one in KDramas.
Don’t forget UFO experts.
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