Repressed Memories
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus is skeptical about cases in which people claim to recall horrific experiences that they've previously repressed. "I believe in many instances they are a product of suggestion, imagination and som...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part One)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus describes her reaction at learning that a psychiatrist was showing videotapes of a woman who had repressed certain memories due to "traumatic amnesia," but was now supposedly recalling the detail...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Five)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus explains that the mother and daughter had a b...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Four)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. After her initial involvement in the case, Dr. Loftus ex...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Two)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus explains that she and her collaborator looked...
Traumatic Amnesia and Massive Repression (Part Three)
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus continues her discussion of the traumatic amnesia case in which a mother was accused of having sexually abused her daughter years earlier. Dr. Loftus describes the reaction of the mother in the c...