Fasle Memory

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as a healthy human being and (b) one remembers being
abused as a child that therefore (A) one was abused as a child and (B) the
childhood abuse is the cause of one's adulthood problems.
There is no evidence that supports the claim that we remember everything
that we experience. In fact, there is plenty of evidence to support the
claim that it is impossible for us to even attend to all the perceptual
elements of any given experience, much less to recall them all. There is no
evidence to support the claim that all memories of experiences happened as
they remembered to have happened or that they have even happened at all. And
there is no evidence to support the claim that subjective certainty about
the accuracy of memories or the vividness of memories significantly
correlates with accuracy. Finally, the claim of a causal connection between
abuse and health or behavior does not warrant concluding that ill health,
mental or physical, is a 'sign' of having ...

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if you can not remember any
specific instances of being abused, but still have a feeling that something
abusive happened to you, 'it probably did'. Three, when a person can not
remember his or her childhood or have very fuzzy memories, 'incest must
always be considered as a possibility'. And four, 'If you have any suspicion
at all, if you have any memory, no matter how vague, it probably really
happened. It is far more likely that you are blocking the memories, denying
it happened'.
There have been many symptoms suggested as indicators of past abuse. These
symptoms range from headaches to irritable bowls. In fact, one psychologist
compiled a list of over 900 ...

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