Repressed Memory Research

Background  for Aug 29 post and others in progress

Here are some good sources:

Summary of Research Examining the Prevalence of Full or Partial  Dissociative Amnesia for Traumatic Events -- Studies show that a period of either partial or full amnesia is reported by between 30 and 90% of adult victims of childhood sexual abuse. Moreover, no study that has looked for evidence of traumatic 

http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/1/tm/tm.html

"Research has shown that traumatized individuals respond by using a variety of psychological mechanisms. One of the most common means of dealing with the pain is to try and push it out of awareness. Some label the phenomenon of the process whereby the mind avoids conscious acknowledgment of traumatic experiences as dissociative amnesia .  Others use terms such asrepression , dissociative state , traumatic amnesia, psychogenic shock, or motivated forgetting .  Semantics aside, there is near-universal scientific acceptance of the fact that the mind is capable of avoiding conscious recall of traumatic experiences."

ALSO

http://childabusewiki.org/index.php?title=Recovered_Memories

really good source of studies

http://www.leadershipcouncil.org/docs/ShanleyBrief.pdf 

http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/recovered-memory-data/

http://blogs.brown.edu/recoveredmemory/ 

http://www.jimhopper.com/memory/

Shanley recovered memory case. Shanley lost the appeal in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/shanley-recovered-memory-case/

“Repressed memories of abuse is a legitimate phenomenon and provided a valid basis for the jury to find that the victim, a child at the time of the assaults, repressed memories of the years of abuse he suffered at the hands of Paul Shanley, someone who was in a significant position of authority and trust,” Leone said in a statement….During Shanley’s trial, the victim tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of classes and rape him, beginning when he was just 6 years old and continuing until he was 12.