Repressed Memory

Repressed memorial When someone asks me "Where are you on September 11, 2001," I can give the person an accurate answer. It seems impossible to forget the events of that day. Why can I forget such a traumatic day? Events that change life always remain in one person. However, there are many victims, including abuse of children who do not remember actual abuse. These terrible memories have been erased, so these events have not been remembered. As a skeptic, I do not know if I can forget these horrible events.

Suppressed memories come from various stress levels and trauma experiences. Because it is thought that stress and trauma are not suitable for others, it is difficult to accurately monitor the cause of melancholy memory. In many cases, all stressful and traumatic events such as childhood sexual abuse, rape, serious accident, crime victims, loss of loved ones, war experiences are all related to oppressed memories . So then why do we forget certain events through suppressed memories? This is a simple answer: protection. Like other psychological barriers, oppressed memories protect us from the level of trauma and stress of the events we are experiencing. Many psychologists and clinicians also agree that oppressed memories will protect us from other extreme emotions such as anger, fear, negative beliefs.

Suppressed memories are "a process of pushing unnecessary substances from conscious to unconscious processes" (Barlow And Durand, 2005). CSA is believed to be a series of traumatic events that can occur over many years and individuals will spontaneously suppress CSA memory that is "forgotten" in these traumatic events occurring early in life There is (called suppression). )). Williams (1994) is not supposed to remember CSA if he was a woman confirmed to be a victim of CSA (Widom and Morris, 1997).

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.