{"id":3020,"date":"2025-07-17T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daily-story.com\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2025-07-17T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:04:19","slug":"do-repressed-memories-actually-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/do-repressed-memories-actually-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Do repressed memories actually exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We’ve all seen in Hollywood movies – when a\nmovie character will be living a good life unaware of some disconcerting event of\ntheir past. Until a bit of syrup drips onto the character’s cheek, and suddenly,\nthey’re taken back into time within their mind when aliens kidnapped them. All\nof a sudden, they remember each and everything. But do repressed\nmemories like this actually exist?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So buckle your seat up because today we’re going\nto find it out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, it turns out that repressed memories\nwere a prevalent notion in psychologists circled a few years ago. There are\nreported cases of people being kept in prison after they recover some\ndisturbing memory from their childhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One study related to this was published in the\nJournal of the Association for Psychological Science by the University of\nCalifornia, Irvine, in the year 2013. It showed that approximately 60-90% of\npsychologists who are also clinicians believe that in some cases, repressed\nmemory exists, though this is very rare. Further research shows, 40-80%\npsychologists found that repressed memory can be retrieved with the help of\nproper methods. Well, in sharp contrast, nearly 70% of psychologists don’t\nbelieve in a thing like a repressed memory. So, you must be wondering where all\nof this is going? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study shows us that there is no convincing\nevidence that supports the concept of repression, despite it is one of the most\naccepted psychoanalytic theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where is all this confusion coming up? The\nreason for this is psychological clinicians have more trust in their clinical\nexperience, while researchers have more confidence in experimental research\nwhere there is solid proof. There are some cases reported of retrieving\nrepressed memories, but at the same time, there is no credible evidence that\nexists to support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is your answer to the question of whether repressed memory actually exists or not<\/strong>. If you trust\nthe research, then there’s no such thing as repressed memory, but if you believe\npsychological clinicians, there are some cases reported of repressed memory.\nAnswers to this question depend on who you trust, whether researchers or\npsychological clinicians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve all seen in Hollywood movies – when a movie character will be living a good life unaware of some disconcerting event of their past. Until a bit of syrup drips onto the character’s cheek, and suddenly, they’re taken back into time within their mind when aliens kidnapped them. All of a sudden, they remember […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-and-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3155,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/3155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.your-dailystory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}