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According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or a sound. Indeed, therapists and lawyers have created an industry based on treating and litigating the cases of people who suddenly claim to have "recovered" memories of everything from child abuse to murder.

This book reveals that despite decades of research, there is absolutely no controlled scientific support for the idea that memories of trauma are routinely banished into the unconscious and then reliably recovered years later. Since it is not actually a legitimate psychological phenomenon, the idea of "recovered memory"--and the movement that has developed alongside it--is thus closer to a dangerous fad or trendy witch hunt.

• Witness for the Defense: The Accused, the Eyewitness and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial
• The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
• The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
• Eyewitness Testimony: With a New Preface
• The Memory Book: The Classic Guide to Improving Your Memory at Work, at School, and at Play
• Unchained Memories
• Memory'S Ghost: The Nature Of Memory And The Strange Tale Of Mr. M
• Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die
• Essentials of Human Memory (Classic Edition) (Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions)
• Making Monsters