![]() Related high profile court cases seemed to decrease in number-those where psychotherapy clients would sue parents, clients would retract their memories and sue therapists, or parents of clients would sue therapists. An American Psychology Association committee came to an uneasy compromise on the issue. It was a bitter and personal argument at times, but thankfully all seemed to calm down to a degree around the turn of the century-the ameliorative bandages seemed to be working. A growing band of psychology researchers became suspicious that some practitioners were actually creating false abuse memories in clients. Many experimental memory researchers, such as David Holmes and Elizabeth Loftus, argued that there is no credible scientific evidence for repressed memory. The theory of repressed memory, first proposed by Sigmund Freud in 1895, states that traumatic events are often so threatening to the psyche that the mind encapsulates them, rendering them inaccessible for years, only to be recalled later in a safer environment (for example, a therapist’s office). In the early 1990s one of psychology’s most important debates arose between some psychologists who argued that the recovery of repressed memories was valid, and skeptical researchers who thought they were confabulations. ![]() ![]() That is analogous to the situation that Mark Pendergrast describes in Memory Warp. ![]() Imagine 20 years ago that you bandaged up a deep wound, and now you peel back the bandages to find that only part of the wound had healed and that, in fact, a raging infection persists. ![]()
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