A Question of Memory 2. Recovered Memories

Do people really recall incidents of abuse years after the event? If so, is a trauma based theory of repression necessary to account for this, or can it be attributed to a normal act of forgetting and remembering?

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Notes

The opening clips are taken from Mary Knight’s documentary, Satanic ritual abuse: “Am I crazy, or did it really happen to me?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzy-Vcl_bZ8

List of Recovery Memory studies compiled by Lyn Crook: https://pages.uoregon.edu/dynamic/jjf/suggestedrefs.html

Lyn Crook is the author of, False Memories, The Deception That Silenced Millions, a book about her own successful lawsuit against her father (where Elizabeth Loftus was an expert witness), and subsequent research into the validity of recovered memories. As the title suggests, Crook’s book is also a critique of the False Memory paradigm
http://lynncrook.com/index.html

Susan Clancy and Richard McNally’s paper, Who needs repression? Normal memory processes can explain “forgetting” of childhood sexual abuse:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232568332_Who_needs_repression_Normal_memory_processes_can_explain_forgetting_of_childhood_sexual_abuse

See also Dr. McNally’s presentation, Memories of past lifes and space alien abduction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywvp8SstQkM

And, Dr. Clancy’s book, The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath https://tinyurl.com/5env9396

Mark Pendergrast’s book, Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die. https://markpendergrast.com/

Professor Ross E. Cheit, Recovered Memory case archive
https://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/case-archive/legal-cases/