lp
> There is a thing called short term memory loss. People who have
> brain damage often have it. So do people with fibromyalgia and other
> conditions. Lots of times people are not diagnosed with these
> conditions and they are sent to the shrink by their incompetent
> physicians who do not give a proper diagnosis. Short term memory loss
> is physiological in origin so I think you have to be careful here.
>
> 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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> Marta Russell
> Los Angeles, CA
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