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The Validity of Repressed Memory

Memory is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experiences. A repressed memory is one that is retained in the sub conscious mind, where one is not aware of it but where it can still affect conscious thoughts and behaviour. There are a lot of models that try to explain how memory works. Nevertheless, we still don't know exactly how memory works. Unfortunately, there is still a lot to be questioned about memory.

Probably the most questionable model of memory is the one which assumes that every experience a person has is 'recorded' in memory, and that some of these are of events so bad that the person doesn't want to remember them. These terrible memories are locked away/repressed, in the sub conscious mind, only to be remembered in adulthood when an event triggers the door to the unconscious.

"Similarly, it is possible that conscious fixation on the idea that one was sexually abused might increase the frequency of some physical symptoms, regardless of whether or not the abuse really occurred."(Lindsay & Read, 1994)

Recently, there have been more and more cases of grown children under going therapeutic programs believing that they suffer from "repressed memories" of ince


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