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According to many clinical psychologists, when the mind is forced to endure a horrifying experience, it has the ability to bury the entire memory of it so deeply within the unconscious that it can only be recalled in the form of a flashback triggered by a sight, a smell, or... Read Full Overview

The nation's leading expert on memory exposes the recent wave of sex abuse charges based on repressed memories as akin to a 20th-century version of the Salem witch trials. Drawing on many famous cases in which Loftus has been directly involved, the authors attack the ideological... Read Full Overview