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Examining Recall Memory in Infancy and Early Childhood Using the Elicited Imitation Paradigm
Published on: April 28, 2016
Childhood "screen memories." Are they forgotten?
1Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico Medical School, Albuquerque 87131, USA.
Abstract:
In the past few years, much has been written on childhood sexual abuse. However, there is an absence of any mention of screen memories. Freud introduced the term "screen memory" in 1899. He repeatedly returned to the subject of childhood memories and concluded all childhood memories are "screen memories" and as such, "show us our earliest years not as they were but as they appeared in later years when the memories were recovered." Childhood memories are important in what they reveal and what they hide, and most important is the affect, not the event.
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