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Recovered Memory and the Daubert Criteria

Recovered Memory as Professionally Tested, Peer Reviewed, and Accepted in the Relevant Scientific Community

Alliant International University California School of Professional Psychology

Research during the past two decades has firmly established the reliability of the phenomenon of recovered memory. This review first highlights the strongest evidence for the phenomenon itself and discusses the survey, experimental, and biological evidence for the varying mechanisms that may underlie the phenomenon. Routes to traumatic amnesia from dissociative detachment (loss of emotional content leading to loss of factual content) and from dissociative compartmentalization (failure in integration) are discussed. Next, an argument is made that false memory is a largely orthogonal concept to recovered memory; the possibility of one phenomena is largely irrelevant to the potential for the other. Furthermore, some aspects of the false memory research offer supportive data for the recovered memory researcher. Finally, the issue of error rates in making the Daubert case is explored. It is concluded that the weight of the evidence should allow the recovered memory victim to come before the court.

Key Words: recovered memory • dissociation • repression • repressed memory • dissociative amnesia • sexual abuse • eyewitness testimony • detachment • state dependent learning • directed forgetting

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