Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Memories and photos both can misrepresent the past. Westend61 via Getty Images In 1990, George Franklin was convicted of murder ...

There has been, and continues to be, disagreement among psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals regarding the reliability of repressed or recovered memories. Many ...

Belknap, 420 pp., $35 AT THE END of the nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud–ever anxious to present an overarching, universal explanation for mental unrest–suggested that “repressed memories” of ...

Since the dawn of modern psychoanalysis, therapists have championed the idea that some memories are simply too traumatic for the conscious mind to retain, and they are tucked away, buried in some ...

The real-life stories that inspired Agnes's repressed memories.

"I want them to know that repressed memories are real, that damaged souls from abuse are real, whether you remember it or not," she said. "There is healing for damaged souls." The scientific community ...

Dear Eric: Soon after we had our first child, my wife uncovered a repressed memory that she had been sexually abused by her father when she was 18 years old. I’ve always encouraged her to share this ...

Amanda Seyfried in Seven Veils Amanda Matlovich/Courtesy of Elevation Pictures It’s made clear early on that Jeanine has only been given this opportunity due to a request from Charles, her deceased ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all have our scars, but what happens when we bury them so deep they start to shape our lives in ways we don’t even notice?