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Repressed Memories

While reading the news recently I have read a lot of article that review the accusations of a twenty seven year old man on a defrocked priest. Supposedly the man had memories of being molested by the priest that were pushed into his unconscious mind because it was painful. This process has been talked about in the psychology world and is referred to as a repressed memory. The idea of this was first introduced by Sigmund Freud who said that our minds will push painful memories in to our unconscious. Bringing these "repressed memories' up as evidence in a court case is controversial because there have been many studies that show that memory can be off. One of the main theories that state this is called the misinformation effect. This says that memories can easily be changed by prompting in the environment. On the other hand, many other peoples repressed memories have been show to be correct.
The things that I read in the article that made me believe the......

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