Repressed Memories Essay

‘The Reality of Repressed memories’ is a collection of diverse information following the emergence of the law suits in the 1990s based on evidences and facts from repressed memories. Its aim was to establish the exact foundation, manifestation and authenticity of their role in law suits, and how jurors and judges could act on evidences from resurfacing memories. I understand repression memory as having one’s memory caged or trapped from consciousness and the inability recollect or remember any facts after being subjected to a very violent, shocking, sadistic and traumatic incident such as sexual abuse, murder, and child abuse. The shock intensity force, cause the mind to drive the painful experience into deep “inaccessible corners of unconsciousness”
It’s also evident from George Franklin’s murder case, that something always induces or spark the recovery process. I consider it to be kind of repressed memory stimulant. Flashes of memories continue repeat in like fragments that can be reassembled into a chronology of the whole shocking scene. Since some might not be recovered, there are difficulties in justifying if there resurfacing memories are not affected by deliberate lies, misremembering or honest mistakes.(Elizabeth F. Loftus, 1993). It is therefore possibly that resurfacing memories could be hallucination-mediated, fantasies, illusions, a combination of borrowed ideas from characters, myths, accounts from heard sources with “idiosyncratic internal beliefs” .(Elizabeth F. Loftus, 1993), or intentionally derived defense mechanism. However, the qualities of many resurfacing memories are so detailed, vivid and chronological, and considered true. A lot of anecdotal reports from psychotherapist, journal reviews, and criminal records, with supporting witnesses, cancel the idea of pseudo-memories and authenticate the whole idea. The only setback is the lack of concrete empirical scientific observations from experimental