An essential part of the story of Netflix’s documentary series “The Keepers” is repressed and recovered memory — the idea that traumatic memories can be blocked by a person’s psyche, and only come ...

Significant events in life tend to linger in your memory. Some might spark happiness when you recall them. Others might involve less pleasant emotions. You might make a conscious effort to avoid ...

Repressed memories are memories that we unconsciously avoid thinking about, usually because of a traumatic experience. These memories are thought to be unconsciously blocked for several years and are ...

In 1990, Eileen Franklin testified that she had witnessed her mother kill her childhood friend, but had repressed the memory for decades. On this evidence, the jury convicted George Franklin of ...

I am a 27-year-old, unmarried woman, which, by the religious attitudes of my youth, should mean that I'm not yet a sexual being. Except, of course, I am. I’ve been a sexual being for most of my life, ...

Repressed emotions are feelings you unconsciously avoid. These are different from feelings you actively push aside because they overwhelm you. Repressed emotions can lead to health problems over time.

The Keepers, a new docuseries on Netflix, examines the allegations of abuse that Sister Cathy Cesnik may have uncovered before she was murdered. Some of the victims at the Baltimore Catholic school ...

Is there such a thing as a repressed memory? I've summarized research on that question in two previous posts: "False Memories in People with Superior Memory Abilities" and "Remembering Something That ...

Anger is a natural emotion and has to be processed in one way or the other. Normally, people’s habitual way of dealing with anger falls into one of two sets of patterns—externalising it or ...

An essential part of the story of Netflix’s documentary series “The Keepers” is repressed and recovered memory — the idea that traumatic memories can be blocked by a person’s psyche, and only come ...