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Repression: A unified theory of a will-o'-the-wisp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

John F. Kihlstrom
John F. Kihlstrom*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720–1650 http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~kihlstrm
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jfkihlstrom@berkeley.edu
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Abstract:

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By conflating Freudian repression with thought suppression and memory reconstruction, Erdelyi defines repression so broadly that the concept loses its meaning. Worse, perhaps, he fails to provide any evidence that repression actually happens, and ignores evidence that it does not.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006, pp. 523
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006