recovered memory
Retrieved buried recollection
A recovered memory is a recollection of past trauma, often childhood abuse, that emerges later in life after being supposedly repressed.
The concept became controversial in the 1980s and 1990s when therapeutic techniques were found to sometimes create false memories rather than recover genuine ones.
The lawsuit hinged on recovered memories from decades earlier.
The term now carries skeptical connotations in psychological and legal contexts.
Cruel or violent treatment
- survivorOne still alive after
- childhood traumaHarmful early life events
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
flashback · trigger · nightmare · haunting · wound · assault · violation · healing
Treatment through guided conversation
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- hypnotherapyTherapeutic use of trance
- regressionReturn to former state
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
integration · psychoanalysis · suggestibility · abreaction · therapist · counseling · subconscious · retrieval
Memory retrieval act
- retrievalAct of getting back
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- hippocampusMemory formation region
- consolidationCombining into unified whole
episodic · autobiographical · encoding · amnesia · neuroscience · reconstructive · forgetting · storage
Moral terror about devil worship
- suggestibilityReadiness to accept influence
- implantationEmbedding into tissue
- confabulationInvented memories believed true
- retractionFormal withdrawal of statement
litigation · accusation · debunked · skepticism · corroboration · reliability · credibility · forensic
abuse
Cruel or violent treatment
- survivorOne still alive after
- childhood traumaHarmful early life events
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
dissociation · flashback · trigger · nightmare · haunting · wound · assault · violation · healing · disclosure
psychotherapy
Treatment through guided conversation
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
- hypnotherapyTherapeutic use of trance
- regressionReturn to former state
dissociation · integration · psychoanalysis · suggestibility · abreaction · therapist · counseling · subconscious · retrieval · implantation
recall
Memory retrieval act
- retrievalAct of getting back
- recollectionRecalled mental image
- hippocampusMemory formation region
consolidation · episodic · autobiographical · encoding · amnesia · neuroscience · reconstructive · forgetting · storage · reconsolidation
satanic panic
Moral terror about devil worship
- suggestibilityReadiness to accept influence
- implantationEmbedding into tissue
- confabulationInvented memories believed true
retraction · litigation · accusation · debunked · skepticism · corroboration · reliability · credibility · forensic · courtroom
- Alien Abductionabductee, beam of light, close encounter, grey aliens, gray aliens
- Memory Themesflashbacks, amnesia, nostalgia, deja vu, recall
- memory errorsmisattribution, confabulation, source confusion, paramnesia, suggestibility
- memoryforget, recall, recollect, retain, forgetfulness
- amnesiaanterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, dissociative amnesia, traumatic amnesia, selective amnesia
- psychepsyche, soul, mind, ego, id
recovered memoryrepressed memory
Unconsciously blocked past experience
amnesia · memory loss · forgetting · repression · suppression
recover, recovered, recovering, recovers, recovery, recoverable, unrecoverable, irrecoverable, cover