{"id":1076,"date":"2003-07-26T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T03:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/26\/a-bad-trip-down-memory-lane\/"},"modified":"2003-07-26T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2003-07-27T03:23:17","slug":"a-bad-trip-down-memory-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/26\/a-bad-trip-down-memory-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bad Trip Down Memory Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a419'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Rare is the academic field in which colleagues on opposite sides of<br \/>\n        a debate &#8212; people with international reputations &#8212; dismiss the very<br \/>\n      foundations of one another&#8217;s work. One such field, according to Susan Clancy<br \/>\n        of the Harvard Psychology Department, is the area of false or repressed<br \/>\n        memory.<\/p>\n<p>What the two sides disagree on is whether painful memories of traumatic<br \/>\n      events can actually be repressed &#8212; completely forgotten &#8212; and then &#8221;recovered&#8221;<br \/>\n      years later in therapy. Many clinicians say yes: it is how we instinctively<br \/>\n      protect ourselves from childhood recollections that would otherwise be<br \/>\n      too dire to bear. Most cognitive psychologists say no: real trauma is almost<br \/>\n      never forgotten; full-blown, traumatic memories dredged up decades later<br \/>\n    through hypnosis are almost invariably false.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion has profound implications in fields as diverse as child abuse and alien abductions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/27\/magazine\/27CLANCY.html?ex=1374638400&amp;en=30625b8e2905649d&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare is the academic field in which colleagues on opposite sides of a debate &#8212; people with international reputations &#8212; dismiss the very foundations of one another&#8217;s work. One such field, according to Susan Clancy of the Harvard Psychology Department, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/26\/a-bad-trip-down-memory-lane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}