Stephanie Soo

and the memories we have lost.

Some people have stated that they believe repressed memories being uncovered in therapy is, quote, that's how you turn a $2,000 eating disorder patient into a $200,000 eating disorder patient.

So a lot of the doctors who don't believe in the repressed memories being true, they think it's a way for therapists and clinicians to get more money out of patients.

Because, oh, you're just depressed and anxious?

Well, maybe I could solve it in three sessions.

But now if I tell you that your entire life is a lie, then you might need a few years.

Which is a very dangerous stigma to place on therapists who already have such a strong stigma that they're working against.

But these doctors believe that many psychologists are trying to make more money by convincing their patients that they are deeply, deeply traumatized and they need to uncover, unpack, and process all of that trauma.

One author who has studied disassociative amnesia, they think that disassociative amnesia even is not real.

They write, I don't think there's good evidence of it.

Traumatizing children actually find it hard not to think about the terrifying events.

They typically have lots of nightmares and flashbacks.

In contrast, recovered memories of trauma can often be traced back to suggestive therapy techniques such as journaling, dream interpretation, and hypnosis.

with the foundation website writing, They state that once the patient remembers, the therapist quote,

patients may be advised to cut off contact with anyone who does not support their new beliefs thus eliminating any opportunity for alternative explanations finally some patients may cling to these abuse memories because they provide an answer for their psychological pain

The foundation continues.

When callers ask questions about if their recovered memories are true, we generally urge them to consider how these memories came to them.

If repeated and suggestive questioning, inappropriate group therapy practices, imagination exercises, or memory enhancement techniques such as hypnosis were involved, we caution callers that although they may believe that they are remembering more, no evidence supports using these techniques for uncovering historically reliable memories.

Hypnosis and truth serum are especially unreliable for these purposes.

In a book written by Eleanor Goldstein, she writes about what happens to trigger repressed memories.