Stephanie Soo

She's actually never studied how people process traumatic experiences.

She only studies memory.

And memory is hard to study.

So that's great.

So she's testifying at all of these trials,

but psychiatrists who actually work with trauma patients, like the author of The Body Keeps the Score.

He says, trauma often overwhelms the central nervous system, so the brain may not be able to register it fully when it happens.

That's why delayed memories of abuse are not uncommon.

Another clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School that has studied trauma for 25 years states, you know, the fact that traumatic memories are storied by your brain.

Okay, so the fact that these traumatic memories, you know how the argument is that...

you're more likely to have strong memories of trauma because your adrenaline, it spikes and it makes the memory formation much stronger.

That is like a separate thing.

You can form these memories, you can encode something into your brain short term, and you can store it away very strongly.

I mean, that is entirely different from whether or not you can retrieve this memory.

So retrieving the memory is different from forming a memory.

So they're like, I mean, technically, you're not really arguing the same thing right now, so it's a little weird.

So they're saying it's odd, right?

Also, there have been some clinicians who state it is in their practicing theory that a lot of patients actually forget remembering.

Like they will remember this memory over time.

So it's not just like all of a sudden they remember it decades later.