The Reason for Repressed Memories

Suppression memory is a state in which memory is blocked by individuals due to high levels of stress or trauma involved in memory. Even if an individual can not recall memory, it can still consciously influence them. Since depressed memory can cause physical and mental harm, it is beneficial for affected individuals to express emotions rather than suppress emotions after experiencing trauma. It is extremely unfavorable physically and mentally to suppress memory.

Therefore, in the final analysis, there is no evidence that people suppress child's memory of sexual abuse and other trauma. And because there is no evidence that people are suppressing these memories, there is no reason to believe that depressed trauma memory can lead to 'nervous' symptoms. And because there is no reason to believe that depression is behind (or beneath) the patient's symptoms, the reason to believe that restoring oppressed traumatic memory has some utility in the treatment of "neurological disorders" There is none.

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.

Before discussing the wrong memory induction process, we need to easily discuss the controversy about repressive memory recovery. Some psychologists acknowledge the credibility of all those who think that all repressive memories of recovery must be fake, and all recovered memories. Here I will try to provide the best scientific evidence on this problem. But the discussion is not between cognitive psychology and evidence-based clinical psychology. Instead, the controversy stems from a different view of memory between cognitive psychology and psychotherapy, which is still based on Freud's theory and has far more scientific support in clinical psychology There was not. Cognitive-based memory researchers believe that many of these recovered memories may indeed be erroneous memories brought about by the process described in this chapter. Freud's psychotherapy believes that these repressed memories are almost always the same.