Repressed Memory: The Missinginformation Effect

Imagine that after 20 years of forgetting it, very traumatic events will reappear in your mind in memory. This was what happened to Eileen Franklin in 1989 when he killed his friend in 1969 and eventually restored his father's repressive memory of George Franklin who took her father to prison ( Beaver, 1996). Suppressed memories are unforgettable memories, but that is traumatic memory that is blocked and unrecovered unless triggered by something.

With regard to whether (or for how long) memory suppression really occurs, mainstream psychology thought that real memory depression rarely occurred and there was debate. About 1930, an American psychologist began trying repression in the laboratory. However, the psychoanalyst was initially not interested in trying to study suppression in the laboratory environment and then refused. Most psychoanalysts conclude that this attempt distorts the repressive concept of psychoanalysis.

How ordinary people and juries respond to suppressed memories cases? Since memory has never been suppressed, has any memory previously suppressed? Understanding the reaction and reputation of an amateur is important not only for theoretical reasons but also for practical reasons. In theory, an amateur 's implicit or intuitive theory of suppressing memory leads to social thought on this subject. This implicit theory can also explain how the therapist 's suppression theory is formed; to some extent they come from the therapist' s own implicit theory.

Suppression is one of the most unforgettable concepts in psychology. There was a shocking thing, and the mind pushed it into some inaccessible corners unconscious. Later, memories may appear in consciousness. Suppression is one of the cornerstones on which the psychoanalytic structure depends. It is said that recently reported childhood sexual abuse memory has increased and has been suppressed for many years. Along with recent changes in laws, people who recently discovered memories have complained of perpetrators of crimes suspected of being 20, 30 or even 40 or more years. These new developments have raised some doubts. (A) How common is the memory of child abuse? (B) How do juries and judges respond to these repressive memory claims? (C) What do they like when memory emerges? (D) What is the credibility of memory?