Posted by RealMe on September 24, 2007, at 20:14:14
In reply to Re: To everyone, posted by Daisym on September 24, 2007, at 1:43:07
Split off or dissociated is different from repressed. I did not mean to imply that one might not remember something. Hell I don't remember some of the things they said I did in the hospital many years ago. I am just saying that the whole notion of repressed memory got a bad rap because there are therapists out there who can plant memories of things that never occured. I have seen it happen when I worked with trauma survivors at Menninger's. I can remember people telling me they did not remember being abused, but everyone tells them they must have been, and so they try hard to remember.
Along these same lines, I have seen the police convince someone they did something they did not do. The mind is an intersting thing, and we have to take care not to plant memories of something not there.
So, I am not implying that anyone here has false memories. I want to make that clear first of all. Second, as I said, split off and/or dissociation occurs all the time and is part of what happens with victims of abuse. This is not the same as having the memory repressed.
For myself, I used to engage a lot in dissocication and splitting off of parts of myself and the memories. So, of course I believe it happens. Just wanted to clarify.
RealME
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