Marta
>On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, RE wrote:
>
>> In sessions
>> I've had patients broach a difficult, important subject and then forget
>> about what they had been talking about ten minutes later, or else forget
>> about it by a session the next day, at the same time complaining of feeling
>> "foggy-headed" and the like. To try to talk about this in any way other
>> than repression -- out of control, motivated forgetting that crudely
>> protects the individual -- is absurd. If it's hard to study, that doesn't
>> mean it doesn't happen.
>> Randy
>>
>
>I agree. There is some pretty convincing research that supports your
>observation that motivated forgetting is a common defense mechanism.
>But this example is more the exception than the rule when it comes
>to scientific tests of psychodynamic ideas.
>
>Miles
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