Repressed Memories

May 31, 2024 13:18

I was watching a video documentary on the Larry Ray sex cult and it made me think how repressed memories seems so hokey to me. I never forget anything traumatic. They may be out-of-mind, but if I bring any to recall, it's vivid, or at least my mind conjures a vivid recollection surrounding it.

I always took for granted that repressed memories were a real thing, never considered, until partway through the video, that repressed memories seems like bullshit. Interestingly, a quick Wikipedia look at repressed memory does seem that modern thinking considers it largely pseudoscientific.

Due to a lack of evidence for the concept of repressed and recovered memories, mainstream clinical psychologists have stopped using these terms. Clinical psychologist Richard McNally stated: "The notion that traumatic events can be repressed and later recovered is the most pernicious bit of folklore ever to infect psychology and psychiatry. It has provided the theoretical basis for 'recovered memory therapy'-the worst catastrophe to befall the mental health field since the lobotomy era."

sex, psychology, video, folklore, memory

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