Elizabeth Loftus, “The Malleability of Memory” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Neuroscience
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Repression and Psychotherapy - What Is It?
In the trial of george franklin, who was accused of murdering a little girl 20 years earlier. The case started to shape his scholarship on repression and psychotherapy. He wanted to find a way to study the planting and development of rich false memories. So he came up with the idea that we could make people believe they had been lost in a shopping mall for five or six minutes before being rescued by an elderly person. And it led to a whole new line of work.
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