Psychology

The subsistence of recovered repressed memories has not been widely accepted by majority of the psychologists neither explicitly verified to exist. Skeptics have presented convincing and forceful arguments in this regard. According to some extreme skeptical claims, no convincing scientific support exists for the philosophy of repressed or recovered memory. They further argued that no confirm cases of repressed memories has yet been reported. According to a research report, there must be a distinction between impulsively recovered memory and recovered memories in therapy during suggestions.

The author, in the article, has argued that repressed recovered memory can be considered legitimate. He is of the view that false memories do occur. The controversy regarding false memory should be changed from the biased debate to a scientific inquiry. The author in his text raised a question that whether the uncorroborated repressed memory proofs should be considered reliable while handling the legal actions and proceedings in criminal matter

    Scholars have argued a number of times that the concept of repression is more of a rumor which has not been supported and being tied to other Freudian perceptions and tentative method.

Therefore, scientific society which believes in logical reasoning and proven case studies has rejected the idea of repression on the grounds of being unproven. However, the idea has not been fully rejected. It has been accepted by those logically oriented psychoanalysts who support their viewpoint on the basis of unreliable reports and proven case studies. (Ofshe  Watters, 1993)

After some research on recovered repressed memory, psychologists came to the conclusion that it is not a naturally occurring phenomenon rather it is a culture-bounded disorder.