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Dena Shuayto Current Issues in Psychology-Psych. 190 Dr. Wagner Are Repressed Memories Valid? After reading both arguments, I came to two major conclusions: first, there seems to be inherent differences in what the experts were in fact debating; and secondly, in arguing whether or not repressed memories exist remains not only a possibility but an enigma of how little we still understand about the complexities of the mind. My first point teeters upon the precarious semantic posturing of the two opposing views. Kluft refers to the phenomenon of "repressed memories" as "...Delayed Recall of Trauma", whereas Loftus refers to it as "Creating False Memories", which in my opinion, are not the same thing. While both cite circumstances of recovering lost or repressed memories, they fail to address the innate differences and comparisons between the types of memories in question: i.e. a memory that lay dormant after what may have been a horrific life...

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