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Memory errors regarding the recovery of repressed childhood abuse can occur due to post-event suggestions from a trusted source, such as a family member, or more commonly, a mental health professional. Due to possible relationships between childhood abuse and [[mental illness]] later in life, some mental health professionals believe in the [[Freudian theory]] of repressed memories as a defense mechanism for the anxiety that recall of the abuse would cause. Freud said that repression operates unconsciously in individuals who are not able to recall a threatening situation or may even forget that the abusive individual was ever part of their lives. Therefore, mental health professionals will sometimes seek to uncover possible instances of childhood abuse in patients, which may lead to [[suggestibility]] and cause a [[false memory]] of childhood abuse to arise, in an attempt to seek a cause to a mental illness.<ref name="lindsay">Lindsay, D.S., & Read, J.D. (1994). Psychotherapy and memories of childhood sexual abuse: A cognitive perspective. ''Applied Cognitive Psychology, 8'', 281–338.</ref> No matter the confidence in the memory, this does not necessarily equate to the memory being true. This is an example of the [[misinformation effect]] and false memory effect. The fact that memories are not retrieved as whole entities but rather are reconstructed from information remaining in memory and other related knowledge make them easily susceptible to memory errors.<ref name="hyman">Hyman Jr., I.E., & Pentland, J. (1996). The role of mental imagery in the creation of false childhood memories. ''Journal of Memory and Language, 35'', 101–117.</ref> This explains why working with mental health professionals and [[Suggestibility|leading questions]] can sometimes manifest false memories by creating knowledge of possible events and asking individuals to focus on if these events actually took place.<ref name="lindsay2">Lindsay, D.S., & Read, J.D. (1995). Memory work and recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse: Scientific evidence and public, professional, and personal issues. ''Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 1''(4), 846–908</ref> Individuals begin to overthink these situations visualizing them in their mind and overanalyzing them. This in turn leads to the belief of situations and vivid memories. Patients are left with memories they believe are real and new events from their childhood which can lead to stress and trauma in their adult life and loss of relationships with those who are believed to be the abuser.
== See also ==
* [[Amnesia]]
* [[False memory syndrome]]
* [[Memory implantation]]
* [[Memory loss]]
* [[Memory and aging]]
* [[Memory bias]]
* [[Memory conformity]]
* [[
==References==
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