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Debates over repressed memories have raged among psychological researchers and clinicians for decades. A number of therapists argued, especially in cases of childhood sexual abuse, that victims had completely suppressed memories of abuse, and that various methods like hypnosis or dream analysis were successful in bringing real memories of past trauma to light.

However, the scientific community was mostly unimpressed, especially since laboratory experiments failed to support the allegations, and on the contrary demonstrated that such 'therapies' created memories, memories about events that had never happened.

Some therapists had created dramatic tales of Satanic Ritual Abuse, which caused massive media panics worldwide, and broke up countless families and destroyed the lives of many innocent people.When the panics waned and the claims were investigated by more sober minds in the scientific and law enforcement fields, the repressed memory theories mostly went into disrespute.

However, in 1997 psychiatrist David Corwin put forth a case study of an alleged victim of childhood sexual abuse, called "Jane Doe," and it appeared that between original interviews at the age of six, where she told about sexual abuse by her mother, and new interviews when "Jane" was seventeen, she had indeed repressed these memories. Only when she saw tapes of herself at six, "Jane" seemed to 'recall' the events. This case study seemed to support the claim that childhood trauma can, in some cases, be suppressed from memory.


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