interesting interview about repressed memory

[billydkid]

Sue Clancy was a PhD student who challenged the idea of repressed memories in the 90's. She has written a new book I guess. This is a pretty interesting interview.

http://www.reason.com/links/links120805.shtml

[Seismosaurus]

Interesting, I didn't know repressed memories had been so completely discredited in scientific fields. Remarkable that it's still so prevalent in courtrooms - do defence teams not put expert witnesses up to debunk this stuff? Or do juries just tend to ignore the debunking?

[RichardR]

Cough cough (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=48750).

[Dancing David]

There are repressed memories, they co-exist in the same space as other memories, it is as though they are in a room that the person does not enetr. However the memories are there if subject to the usual vargaries of memory. In something like seventy percent of child abuse cases the memories can be confirmed by an adult that knew of the events and did nothing.

However any memories that are recovered through hypnosis or other bizzzare means are as reliable as past life regression and alien abduction.

(There are plenty of people who suffer childhood abuse, but unfortunately they are not the ones every one talks about, the fraudulent ones just make it harder for the true ones.)

[Belz...]

There are repressed memories, they co-exist in the same space as other memories, it is as though they are in a room that the person does not enetr. However the memories are there if subject to the usual vargaries of memory. In something like seventy percent of child abuse cases the memories can be confirmed by an adult that knew of the events and did nothing.

In the same space as other memories ? How does that work, anyway ?