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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.folklore.urban,alt.atheism,alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Hypnosis and Repression (was Ritual Abuse Taskforce....)
- Date: 16 Dec 1992 20:56:24 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Dec05.205753.605385@zeus.calpoly.edu> <7514@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk>,<rlewis.724193757@muskwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- In article <rlewis.724193757@muskwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>, rlewis@muskwa.ucs.ualberta.ca (Robert Lewis) writes:
- =I believe that I have heard that most/all purported cases of satanic
- =ritual have been 'discovered' via hypnosis and that the are memories
- =which are claimed to have been repressed due to the supposedly horrific
- =nature of the events. Two questions:
- =
- =1) Is there any 'objective' evidence for the repression of horrific
- =memories? I wonder about this because it seems that only certain sorts
- =of events (like ritual abuse) come up in the context of such repression
- =whereas others, such as having been in a concentration camp (which
- =surely is at least as horrific) never do.
-
- Unless I'm mistaken, hysterical amnesia is an uncommon, but by no means
- unknown, affliction.
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