I do believe that people repress memories, but only consciously. It's the thing that people do when they just decide to stop dwelling on something and move on. I also believe that people can be in denial of reality, both internally and externally, but the idea that an existent traumatic memory could somehow be inaccessible and then 'recovered' in therapy makes no sense.
These so-called 'recovered memories' are almost certainly 'implanted memories'. Elizabeth Loftus studied implanted memories and her research shows very convincingly that it's quite easy to make people 'remember' things that can be verified to have never happened. For this she was once assaulted by a woman on an airplane with a rolled up magazine. The woman believed that recovered memories were real and that Loftus was denying justice to victims.
I do believe that people repress memories, but only consciously. It's the thing that people do when they just decide to stop dwelling on something and move on. I also believe that people can be in denial of reality, both internally and externally, but the idea that an existent traumatic memory could somehow be inaccessible and then 'recovered' in therapy makes no sense.
These so-called 'recovered memories' are almost certainly 'implanted memories'. Elizabeth Loftus studied implanted memories and her research shows very convincingly that it's quite easy to make people 'remember' things that can be verified to have never happened. For this she was once assaulted by a woman on an airplane with a rolled up magazine. The woman believed that recovered memories were real and that Loftus was denying justice to victims.