Introduction
For century, lots of people have been wrongfully accused and being convicted for abuse from recovery of memories. Most incident occurred after years of not declaring and only recollected during adulthoods, hence, this post a question - How reliable or accurate is the recovered memories?
This recovered memories may only be repressed due to shocking incident and later from the unconscious mind, the memory surface out to the conscious mind side. This theory is the key foundation for psychoanalysis and many psychotherapists have readily accepted ( Bruhn, 1990)

Memories
We have to know that human mind consists of short-term and long-term memory, in this case, we’re looking at long-term memory which break down into 3 main classes. Procedural memory, is …show more content…
Courtois (1992) answered by indicating that, therapist can only suspect due to the symptoms “disguised presentation” or a lots of problem presented. Since therapist could not sustain an accurate answer, several group research and studies have been conducted through interviewing or giving questionnaires to clients.
An experiment was conducted at Harvard University about false memory (Clancy 2000), 4 subjects was examining on sexual abuse, 1st subject only believe of being sexually abuse but could not remember it, 2nd subject was reported having repressed memory, 3rd subject reported remembering of childhood abuse, 4th subject with no history. All the subjects were examined with Deese/Roediger Mcdermott paradigm. The result suggest that repressed memory have a higher chance of giving false memory than other