I am not about to "fight" ppl who've suffered trauma and who believe this is real for them, nor would I want to present evidence to the contrary as I don't want to further aggravate the pain these ppl are undoubtedly going through.
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Replying to @riversstreetx @dzongsar and
I did because the evidence is just not there for me. I hope we can agree to disagree on this.
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Replying to @GabeBlessing @riversstreetx and
The site you link acknowledges most severe trauma is NOT repressed. It leaves the door open that it may occur in (fewer) cases. The 1980s insistence in some quarters that traumatic memories are routinely suppressed is not backed by any cognitive science. http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/about/false/ …
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @GabeBlessing and
The book at the heart of the controversy--"The Courage to Heal"--posited MOST trauma is suppressed, completely ignoring what is known about human memory. The authors (who knew nothing about memory dyanamics) meant well, but they did more damage to survivors than good in the end.
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Replying to @dzongsar @GabeBlessing and
Book was important, but authors should never have built their entire thesis around the idea repressed memories were the likely cause of a myriad of symptoms. Language in the First Edition was strong--"If your life shows symptoms, you were abused, whether you remember it or not."
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @dzongsar and
They also counseled readers to imagine abuse, to try to "get in touch" with repressed memories, because of their certainty they were there to be uncovered. Anyone who has a passing knowledge of suggestibility + nature of human memory can see why that is unethical.
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Replying to @4th_WaveNow @dzongsar and
Tangentially related, the McMartin trial was a watershed moment in this regard. Why children are notoriously unreliable witnesses (yet we pretend they can infallibly "choose" their gender).
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No one is "attacking" (except maybe you). We're trying to discuss. Are you aware of body of research into unreliability of ADULT eyewitnesses? Memory is fallible. But severe abuse memories tend to be searing & reliable. Abusers should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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