Dodier, Olivier Barzykowski, Krystian Souchay, Céline
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
Recovered memories of trauma are memories of traumatic events experienced generally during childhood, but of which the persons were unaware until they retrieved it. Legal decisions are sometimes based on such recovered memories, the validity of which is often questioned. Yet, people can recover genuine traumatic memories of childhood abuse. In this...
Dodier, Olivier Gilet, Anne-Laure Colombel, Fabienne
Published in
Memory (Hove, England)
What do people really think of when they say they believe in repressed traumatic memory? In two studies (NStudy 1 = 3158; NStudy 2 = 305) using an integrative method taking into account recent methodological discussions, we found that, in total, 2458 participants (71% of the two combined samples) reported that they believed in repressed memory. In ...
Otgaar, Henry Howe, Mark L Patihis, Lawrence Merckelbach, Harald Lynn, Steven Jay Lilienfeld, Scott O Loftus, Elizabeth F
Published in
Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has been at the heart of one of the most heated debates in modern psychology. These so-called memory wars originated in the 1990s, and many scholars have assumed that they are over. We demon...
Otgaar, Henry Howe, Mark L Patihis, Lawrence Merckelbach, Harald Lynn, Steven Jay Lilienfeld, Scott O Loftus, Elizabeth F
Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has been at the heart of one of the most heated debates in modern psychology. These so-called memory wars originated in the 1990s, and many scholars have assumed that they are over. We demon...
Otgaar, Henry; 119064; Howe, Mark L.; Patihis, Lawrence; Merckelbach, Harald; Lynn, Steven Jay; Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Loftus, Elizabeth F.;
Can purely psychological trauma lead to a complete blockage of autobiographical memories? This long-standing question about the existence of repressed memories has been at the heart of one of the most heated debates in modern psychology. These so-called memory wars originated in the 1990s, and many scholars have assumed that they are over. We demon...
Dodier, Olivier Patihis, Lawrence Payoux, Mélany
Published in
Memory (Hove, England)
Recovered memories of abuse in therapy are especially controversial if the clients were not aware they were abused before therapy. In the past, such memory recovery has led to legal action, as well as a debate about whether such memories might be repressed, forgotten, or false memories. More than two decades after the height of the controversy, it ...
Rydberg, Jenny Ann
Introduction. The creation of a new journal on trauma and dissociation is an opportunity to take stock of existing models and theories in order to distinguish mythical, and sometimes dangerous, stories from established facts.Objective. To describe the professional, scientific, clinical, and ethical strategies and fallacies that must be envisaged wh...
García Hernandorena, Pepa
When making use of the biographical method, it is quite common to collect stories directly from those who lived the narrated events. Those stories can be focused on either their entire life or specific aspects that the researcher considers relevant or important. There is an unwavering fact related to the research carried out on the recovery of the ...
García Hernandorena, Pepa
When making use of the biographical method, it is quite common to collect stories directly from those who lived the narrated events. Those stories can be focused on either their entire life or specific aspects that the researcher considers relevant or important. There is an unwavering fact related to the research carried out on the recovery of the ...
Scharnberg, Max Edvardsson, Bo
Textual analysis assisted by computer techniques has been applied to the enormous amount of evidence of the recovered memory Södertälje case. This approach disclosed that the narratives about sexual and ritual abuse had no foundation in reality. The approach also managed to reveal what person (not any of the more plausible suspects) had manufacture...
