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Let Freud rest in peace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2006

Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA02138
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Abstract:

Erdelyi's version of repression – trying successfully not to think about something – is no longer recognizably Freudian. Erdelyi fails to cite directed forgetting experiments involving psychiatric patients that indicate that the motivation to forget threatening material seldom translates into an ability to do so. The early Freud of the seduction theory of hysteria did inspire the recovered memory fiasco.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2006 , pp. 526 - 527
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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