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Published online 6 February 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070205-5
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Repressed memories a recent development?
No one wrote about this condition until the 1800s.
The idea of repressed memory — when traumatic events are wiped from a person's conscious memory but resurface years later — has had a chequered past. Some have cited it as evidence in court, yet others dismiss it as nothing more than psychiatric folklore.
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