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	Repressed Memory
		Memory retrieval is a process that relies on the cues and stimuli from the environment.
		Furthermore, some memories are forgotten not because they are repressed, but because either the person was rendered unconscious during the trauma, the brain was damaged due to the trauma, or the person was too young to remember the trauma (6).
		Memories can be forgotten due to a weak neural connection that was formed during the time of the experience or the brain did not encode for the memory (6).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro02/web3/k1fong.html (1857 words)

	Anxiety Zone - Repressed memory
		A repressed memory, according to some theories of psychology, is a memory (often traumatic) of an event or environment which is stored by the unconscious mind but outside the awareness of the conscious mind.
		On the other hand, skeptics of theories of repressed memory suggest that the supposedly "recovered" memories are actually false memories, often based on subtle suggestions by the questioner.
		A common explanation among proponents of the existence of repression for the widespread skepticism and denial is that the skeptics are denying their own traumatic experiences themselves and/or they are perpetrators themselves.
	www.anxietyzone.com /glossary/repressed_memory.html (500 words)

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		Professional associations, as well as experts in psychiatry and psychology, have warned that "repressed memories" and their "recovery" have not been scientifically documented to allow a determination that the "recovered memories" are real memories rather than pseudo-memories, confabulations or otherwise false memories.
		Where a witness plans to testify regarding his or her "recovered repressed memories," the relevancy, probative value, and personal knowledge aspects of the proposed testimony are necessarily intertwined with the determination of whether the concept of "recovered repressed memories" meets the test of State v.
		Because the "recovered repressed memory" hypothesis is fatally flawed under Alberico and Daubert, it necessarily follows that testimony of fact witnesses based on "recovered repressed memories" is inadmissible as not relevant, not probative, unfairly prejudicial, and likely to confuse or mislead the fact-finder.
	www.dcfpd.org /motions/alaska/exclude/represse.htm (3087 words)

	establishent psycho-bunk 4 - repressed memory
		Previous research indicated that enhanced memory for emotional events is mediated by endogenous stress hormones, particularly adrenergic hormones, and a part of the brain called the amygdala.
		However, it is quite impossible for a third party to verify whether they are dealing with a genuine repressed ‘memory’, or with a ‘memory’ that may have been implanted either deliberately or by incautious, or incompetent, questioning.
		It has been suggetsed that this may mean that memories shortly prior to an emotional experience are never laid down in the first place and are, therefore, not there to be repressed or otherwise.
	www.abelard.org /briefings/repressed_memory.htm (787 words)

	The Myth of Repressed Memory
		The prosecutors argued that this elaborate "memory" was an accurate version of the past, and they invoked the mechanism of repression to explain why Eileen forgot about her part in the murder and then twenty years later recalled exactly what happened.
		Memory is the vehicle by which we transport ourselves from reality to fantasy and back again, as many times as it takes to spin coherent and colorful stories from the dry straw of real life.
		As Eileen discussed her emerging memories with her therapist, he explained that the human mind is, indeed, capable of burying a painful or traumatic event in the unconscious.
	faculty.washington.edu /eloftus/Articles/Cosmo.html (5335 words)

	REPRESSED MEMORY CONTROVERSY
		Repressed memory and other controversial origins of sexual abuse allegations: Beliefs among psychologists and clinical social workers.
		Gleaves, D.H. The evidence for "repression": An examination of Holmes (1990) and the implications for the recovered memory controversy.
		Schooler, J.W. The distinctions of false and fuzzy memories.
	atrium.issd.org /membersonly/coons/coonsmemory.html (12106 words)

	Repressed memory
		Therapists used "recovered memory therapy" to retrieve memories from patients, sometimes using hypnosis or sodium amytal, popularly known as "truth serum." Many women, thinking that their problems were due to incest, went to therapists because they were desperate to regain their memories.
		When it comes to repressed memory, psychologist and renowned memory expert Elizabeth Loftus believes that it is possible for people to forget unpleasant experiences for a period of time and be reminded of them later.
		She conducted one study in which a memory of being lost in a mall as a child was recalled by 25% of the subjects after three suggestive interviews.
	healthqa.stbernards.info /html_healthgate/html/0_142/14226.php (1462 words)

	Repressed memory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The repressed memory concept was popularized during the 1980s and partly the 1990s by the popular press, some feminist groups, and some psychological schools of thought, however it is suffering a retreat in popularity with professionals and the public during recent years after a series of scandals concerning it.
		The theory of repressed memories must not be confused with the established psychological concept of repression in general which stresses impulses instead of memories.
		The novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Charlie is confronted with repressed memories of being sexually abused by his aunt in the end of the novel after being upset and confused by sexual contact with his crush/friend, Sam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Repressed_memory (3380 words)

	repressed memory therapy
		Repressed memory therapy (RMT) is a type of psychotherapy which assumes that problems such as bulimia, depression, sexual inhibition, insomnia, excessive anxiety, etc., are due to unconsciously repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse.
		Memories are lost because neural connections are lost, not because some homunculus stores them in the basement of the mind and lets them haunt the people upstairs in the room where clear consciousness dwells.
		One thing the RMT group has accomplished in these Memory Wars is to divert attention from the questionable mechanism of repression and their predetermined, unscientific methods of interpreting symbolic meanings of recollections, to the issue of whether the RMT therapists are planting memories in their patients.
	skepdic.com /repress.html (4010 words)

	repressed memory
		A repressed memory is the memory of a traumatic event unconsciously retained in the mind, where it is said to adversely affect conscious thought, desire, and action.
		Evidence concerning memory for real-life traumas in children and adults indicates that these events--such as the Chowchilla kidnappings, the sniper killing at an elementary school, or the collapse of skywalks at a Kansas City hotel--are generally well remembered....complete amnesia for these terrifying episodes is virtually nonexistent (Schacter 1996, 256).
		Critics of RMT maintain that many therapists are not helping patients recover repressed memories, but are suggesting and planting false memories of alien abduction, sexual abuse, and satanic rituals.
	skepdic.com /repressedmemory.html (818 words)

	Loompanics Unlimited -- Controversial and Unusual Books
		The repressed memory "experts" have counterattacked by calling these people "the backlash," "a group of molesters," and "Satanists." When you attempt to dissect, examine and expose a fraud that has mutated into a fanatical ideology and a staggeringly lucrative industry, you can expect to get some heat.
		Feminist leaders have zealously embraced the repressed memory ideology as evidence of the depravity of the human male, and powerfully indoctrinated their communicants with this madness.
		Memory is imagined as a computerized process in which every action, expression, emotion, and nuance of behavior is imprinted into the soft tissue of the mind.
	www.loompanics.com /Articles/Repressed.htm (4429 words)

	Repressed Memories of SRA
		The repressed memory theory held that long-buried memories of sexual abuse were the hidden cause of patients’ discontents.
		Therapists even believed that memories could be repressed by the mind but remembered by the body: “body memories” such as unexplained aches and pains might really mean the body was recalling the suffocating horrors of being molested.
		Indeed, persons claiming to have repressed memories of ritual abuse have been overwhelmingly female, white, middle or upper class -- among the more privileged citizens of the globe, they come to believe that they are uniquely oppressed and uniquely damaged by childhood trauma that they didn't even remember.
	members.shaw.ca /imaginarycrimes/repressedmemory.htm (1824 words)

	Compensation and Repressed Memory
		The concept of repressed memories of sexual abuse is controversial within the scientific, legal and sociological contexts.
		[1] Therapists who believe in the validity of the concept operate under the belief that massive trauma leads to repression and dissociation and that their job is to excavate these alleged memories to help the client to heal.
		Whereas the average cost of a mental health claim in the Crime Victim Compensation Program that did not involve repressed memory was $2,672, the average cost for the 183 repressed memory claims was dramatically higher: $12,296.
	www.fmsfonline.org /mhscvcp.html (626 words)

	Great Moments in Science - Repressed Memory
		However, "expert" therapists had been able to tease these repressed memories back into consciousness, so that their patients could get on with their lives.
		Traumatic memories can indeed be repressed, but not as frequently as the therapists were able to find.
		It seems that memory is not like a video tape or a DVD that we can simply replay in its original form, whenever we wish.
	www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s1213245.htm (602 words)

	Repressed Memory Internet Treasure Hunt
		Memory itself is also of vital importance when examining this issue.
		Studies have shown that memory can be influenced by both internal and external factors, such as the susceptibility to hypnosis, suggestions made by the therapist, or the incorporation of another's story into one's own memory.
		Discusses motivations perpetrators may have for repressing memories, the most prominent being their own sexual abuse as children.
	www.uml.edu /College/Education/Faculty/lebaron/97TH.html (2668 words)

	REPRESSED MEMORIES AND RECOVERED MEMORY THERAPY (RMT)
		memories, by nature, are fluid and malleable, easily influenced by suggestion.
		Zealous therapists encouraged clients to recall repressed memories of childhood abuse, leading to more than 800 lawsuits against alleged abusers between 1985 and 2000.
		A report on studies of repressed memories, with rebuttals.
	www.religioustolerance.org /rmt.htm (772 words)

	Repressed Memory Pathfinder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Information on memory can be found on the nonfiction shelves at 153.1.
		Memories Lost and Found--Part I. Repressed memories' and the law
		The Admissibility of Repressed and Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
	gbs.glenbrook.k12.il.us /imc/pages/pathfndr/reprsmem.htm (97 words)

	Memory: Memory Links
		A Computational Theory of Working Memory "Detailed modeling of the memory ramifications of a human-machine system may be useful in the prediction of performance in terms of both fluency of use and in the prediction of errors." An academic paper.
		The Art of Memory "Curiously, the use of memory systems did not become immediately obsolete with the invention of printing, but instead became elaborated into yet another form as a complex, Neoplatonic magic which would have a far reaching, though somewhat obscured, influence."
		How to play piano music from memory This is the hypertext version of the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) article for rec.music.makers.piano on playing piano from memory.
	www.exploratorium.edu /memory/links.html (809 words)

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