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Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Neuroscience

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Repressed Memories of Abuse

A light now is being shined on this problem of real abusend. There're plenty of real abuse cases where there's nothing suspicious about them. And you began to see people say, well, if you don't have memories of abuse, it doesn't mean you weren't abused. To bring this idea of repression into our consciousness. These people who would ultimately develop multiple personality disorder. They supposedly had repressed memories that were being carried by the other personality, or whatever.

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